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Stock returns around acquisition announcements are widely viewed as being reflective of the net present value created by these transactions. As such, announcement returns should correlate with acquisition outcomes. Using a new measure of realized transaction-level acquisition failure, as well as...
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This paper distinguishes between value creation through redistribution of physical assets and that from intangible assets. We decompose the market-to-book ratio into fundamental value and unexplained components and find that mergers create wealth when high-value firms primarily acquire physical...
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We examine whether financing commitments from a target firm's financial advisor, in the form of stapled financing, provide certification of target value. Using a dataset of leveraged buyouts spanning 2002-2011, and addressing endogeneity issues, we find that stapled financing has significantly...
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Cash- and stock-financed takeover bids induce strikingly different target revaluations. We exploit detailed data on … unsuccessful takeover bids between 1980 and 2008, and show that targets of cash offers are revalued on average by 15% after deal … longer horizons. We find no evidence that future takeover activities or operational changes explain these differences …
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Acquiring-firm shareholders lost 12 cents at the announcement of acquisitions for every dollar spent on acquisitions for a total loss of $240 billion from 1998 through 2001, whereas they lost $7 billion in all of the 1980s, or 1.6 cents per dollar spent. Though the announcement losses to...
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