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Governance mandates, outside directors, and acquirer performance
Dahya, Jay; Golubov, Andrey; Petmezas, Dimitris; … - 2016
We use hand-collected board data around the issuance of two distinct government-led board structure mandates in the U.K. to establish the effect of outside directors on acquirer performance. Increases in outside director representation are associated with better acquirer returns in deals...
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Board Share Ownership and Takeover Performance
Cosh, Andy - 2012
We investigate the relation between takeover performance and board share ownership in the acquiring company for a … on takeover outcomes including: the means of payment; acquirer size and market to book value; the relative size of the … acquirer and the target; the nature of the bid in terms of hostility and industrial direction; and the pre-takeover performance …
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Independent Director Death and CEO Acquisitiveness : Build an Empire or Pursue a Quiet Life?
Shi, Wei - 2016
This study examines the relationship between an independent director's death and CEO acquisitiveness. Using a sample of large U.S. public firms, we find that CEOs who have experienced an independent director's death undertake fewer acquisitions in the post-director death period, in particular...
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Cost of information acquisition and board independence : Evidence from a change in an accounting standard
Allegrucci, Alberto - 2020
Independent directors are valuable because they do not suffer from the agency coststhat afflict executive directors. Independent directors also operate at an informationaldisadvantage compared with executive directors, which makes it hard for them to carryout their duties of advising and...
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Are Outside Director Trades Informative? Evidence from Acquiring Firms
Gordon, Rachel - 2019
I show that nonroutine premerger trades by acquirer outside directors contain a significant amount of private information and indicate opportunistic trading on the information. I find that outside directors sell shares before less valuable deals and purchase shares before more value enhancing...
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Industry Experience of Board CEO, and Acquisition Performance
Bhattacharya, Debarati - 2019
This study examines the collective impact of expert boards and CEOs on acquisition performance, providing new insight into the CEO-board relationship. Acquiring firms with expert boards earn an additional 1.16 percentage points when their CEOs are new to the target industry compared to firms...
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Do Bad Boards Allow Bad Acquisitions?
Pandit, Shail - 2009
A large proportion of acquisitions results in shareholder wealth destruction. This study examines who is responsible for allowing bad acquisitions. Using a sample of 349 tax-free, stock-for-stock, pooling acquisitions over 1993-2001, the announcement period abnormal returns of acquirers are...
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Board governance and acquirers' returns : a study of Australian acquisitions
Chan, Winson; Emanuel, David - In: Australian journal of management 36 (2011) 2, pp. 174-199
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Chapter 1. Corporate Governance and Control
Becht, Marco; Bolton, Patrick; Röell, Ailsa - 2003
Corporate governance is concerned with the resolution of collective action problems among dispersed investors and the reconciliation of conflicts of interest between various corporate claimholders. In this survey we review the theoretical and empirical research on the main mechanisms of...
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Reassessing the Rationales for the Takeover Bids Directive's Board Neutrality Rule
White, Alexander - 2013
This article evaluates the Takeover Bids Directive's board neutrality rule, in light of the European Commission …
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