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This study examines how institutional investors' cost bases impact takeover offer prices and the likelihood of deal …
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This paper empirically evaluates two possible sources of large takeover premiums: preemptive bidding and target … resistance. We develop an auction model that features costly sequential entry of bidders in takeover contests and that … in the period 1988-2006. We find that target resistance is the main determinant of takeover premiums in 74% of successful …
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Information produced in the takeover process and changes in firm characteristics could both affect bidder liquidity … information production than successful bidders during the takeover process, but only successful bidders enjoy significant … liquidity improvements after their takeovers. Whether a takeover is successful or not generally does not have a significant …
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Recent academic studies indicate that acquirers' cumulative abnormal returns (CAR) decline from deal to deal in acquisitions programs. Does this pattern suggest hubristic CEO behaviors are significant enough to influence average CAR patterns during acquisitions programs? An alternative...
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In a number of observed procurements, the buyer has employed an auction format that allows for a split-award outcome. We focus on settings where the range of uncertainty regarding scale economies is large and, depending on cost realizations, the efficient allocations include split-award outcomes...
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This paper studies the bidding behavior of firms in U.S. Forest Service timber auctions in 1976--1990. When conducting timber auctions, the Forest Service publicly announces its estimates of the tract characteristics before the auction, and each bidder additionally has an opportunity to inspect...
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The accounting literature has found evidence that acquirers in stock-for-stock M&A have typically managed earnings upwards ahead of a bid. Other literatures have concluded that, when stock prices are high and rising, M&A is higher, more M&A is financed with stock, market sentiment and...
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paper is the first to document the role of cash holdings on bondholder wealth around takeover announcements …
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