Cremers, Martijn; Litov, Lubomir P.; Sepe, Simone M.; … - 2022
We analyze the impact of the right to adopt a poison pill – a “shadow pill” – on visible pill policy and firm value by exploiting the quasi-natural experiment provided by U.S. states’ staggered adoption of poison pill laws (PPLs) validating the pill. We document that by reducing...