mergers and acquisitions. In this paper we show that a knowledge-based firm's probability of being a takeover target is … manager owner significantly decreases that firm's probability of being a takeover target. -- ownership structure ; property …

collected dataset of all German IPOs from 1997 until 2006 we show that the takeover probability of young and high tech firms …

movements, takeover regulation and offer premium and their combined impact on takeover success for a sample of 311 takeo-ver … runup for the takeover offers in our sample with an abnormal return of around 8%. Further, analysis of German takeover … offers is of particular interest as its takeover code contains a minimum bid requirement for control-taking offers …

If a bidder launches a takeover offer for a listed company being part of a stock market index, then index funds and …. This paper analyzes the impact of index fund and ETF ownership on the success of takeover offers in Germany. Based on a … sample of 323 takeover offers of publicly listed German companies between 2006 and 2018, we document a significant negative …