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of targets, bidders, and their peers upon takeover announcement, and closing or withdrawal. We distinguish five common M …
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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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We investigate the relation between corporate governance characteristics of hostile takeover targets and the choice to …
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We argue that takeover protections decrease equity value and increase equity risk and stock returns by removing a … anti-takeover laws, both domestically and internationally. In line with our predictions, we find that distressed firms … experience a significant decrease in value and increase in returns and market betas after the passage of anti-takeover laws. Pro-takeover …
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Revaluations of industry peers around horizontal acquisitions are negative when targets are private, but positive when they are public. We posit this “revaluation spread” arises because acquiring managers favor private targets when public firms are overvalued. Targets' ownership status thus...
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-level uncertainty is characterized by a pecking order: the announcement of a domestic takeover leads to a reduction in the uncertainty …
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Hard-to-value stocks provide opportunities for managers to exploit their informational advantage through trading on their firms' and their own personal accounts. In contrast to the prediction that such transactions reflect private information about future events, they are contrarian and heavily...
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We build an equilibrium model to explain why stock return predictability concentrates in bad times. The key feature is that investors use different forecasting models, and hence assess uncertainty differently. As economic conditions deteriorate, uncertainty rises and investors' opinions...
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In this paper we document the asymmetric role that the U.S. stock market plays in the international predictability of excess stock returns during recession and expansion periods. Most of the positive evidence accrues during the periods of recessions in the United States. During the expansions...
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