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Who cares about corporate fraud? : evidence from cross-border mergers and acquisitions of Chinese companies
Fu, Chao; Deng, Xiuyuan; Tang, Hongfei - In: Review of quantitative finance and accounting 60 (2023) 2, pp. 747-789
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Cross-Border Acquisitions by Chinese Enterprises : The Benefits and Disadvantages of Political Connections
Schweizer, Denis - 2018
This paper explores whether and how political connections affect the likelihood of completing a cross-border M&A deal for Chinese publicly listed, but privately-owned enterprises (POEs) and the resulting firm performance. In line with our proposed political connection trade-off theory, we find...
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Gains to Chinese Bidder Firms : Domestic vs. Foreign Acquisitions
Black, Emma L. - 2013
This paper examines whether foreign acquisition of Chinese firms improves share price performance relative to domestic acquisitions. The results show that foreign acquisitions are not associated with positive abnormal returns in the short-run, but that they are so associated for domestic...
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Chinese acquisitions abroad : are they different?
Fuest, Clemens; Hugger, Felix; Sultan, Samina; Xing, Jing - 2019
Made in China 2025 influence investment patterns of Chinese state-owned acquirers but not those of private investors …
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Critical Exposition of Japanese Takeover Law in an International Context
Lee, Joseph - 2016
There is a common perception that the Japanese takeover market excludes foreign companies. But this is not because … Japanese takeover law is designed to protect target companies. Comparing Japanese takeover law with the UK Takeover Code and … the European Takeover Directive, this thematic and content- based investigation reveals that Japan does not have overt …
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Cross-border mergers and hollowing-out
Secrieru, Oana - 2009
The purpose of our paper is to examine the profitability and social desirability of both domestic and foreign mergers in a location-quantity competition model, where we allow for the possibility of hollowing-out of the target firm. We refer to hollowing-out as the situation where the target firm...
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What is different about government-controlled acquirers in cross-border acquisitions?
Karolyi, G. Andrew; Liao, Rose C. - 2010
We examine the motives for and consequences of 5,317 failed and completed cross-border acquisitions constituting $619 billion of total activity that were led by government-controlled acquirers over the period from 1990 to 2008. We benchmark this activity at the aggregate country level and also...
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The effects of cross-border M&As on the acquirers' domestic performance : firm-level evidence
Stiebale, Joel; Trax, Michaela - 2010
This paper provides empirical evidence on the effects of cross-border M&As on investing firms' domestic performance in the U.K. and France. We build a new firm-level dataset that combines a global M&A database with balance sheet data for the years 2000-2007. Combining matching techniques with a...
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The impact of foreign acquisitions on the investors' R&D activities : firm-level evidence
Stiebale, Joel - 2010
This paper provides empirical evidence on the relationship between cross-border acquisitions and innovation activities at the firm level. In contrast to previous studies that analyze the effects on innovation in target firms, this paper investigates the effects on the investing firms. For the...
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Foreign and domestic takeovers in Germany : cherry-picking and lemon-grabbing
Weche-Gelübcke, John P. - 2012
This study focuses on ex ante performance of domestic and foreign takeover targets in Germany, one of the most … well as binary response model estimations of takeover probabilities were performed for the manufacturing and service sector … separately. The results showed a diametrically opposing impact of productivity and profitability on the takeover likelihood. This …
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