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’ informational advantage as well as their ability to facilitate future takeover transactions, appear to contribute to peers …
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The impact of the announcement of a takeover bid has been widely tested in foreign literature. Therefore, the main goal … of this paper is to research the impact of the announcement of a takeover bid on the share price movements in the … takeover bid affects the share prices of the target company, which is consistent with the results of previous research …
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Several investigations came to the conclusion that, considering in retrospect, most Mergers & Acquisitions were not successful. Differences in the corporate cultures are often quoted as being responsible for the failures. So, the question arises how such failures can be prevented in future....
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Using a cross-country sample of mergers and acquisitions, we examine the role of cultural, institutional, geographic and managerial factors on post-merger default risk. Our results are consistent with the asymmetric hypothesis that managers take advantage of the overvaluation and volatility of...
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The quiet life hypothesis argues that, when managers are insulated from the discipline of the takeover market, they … words, they prefer to live a “quiet life”. Exploiting a distinctive measure of takeover vulnerability principally based on …. Our results show that more takeover exposure significantly raises CSR variability, consistent with the prediction of the …
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After decades of de-prioritizing shareholders' economic interests and low corporate profitability, Japan introduced the JPX-Nikkei400 in 2014. The index highlighted the country's “best-run" companies by annually selecting the 400 most profitable of its large and liquid firms. We find that...
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We extend prior literature by showing that societal trust is a significant determinant of corporate investment policy. Firms in countries with a higher level of societal trust are less prone to underinvestment. We posit that the association between trust and underinvestment relates to a...
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The ability of foundations to build social capital has been considered insufficiently. Using a case study design describing a successful project with a network structure, this study presents abilities and characteristics of foundations that allow them to develop networks, norms, and trust, the...
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To date, scholars working in the area of behavioral finance have mostly focused on asset pricing and portfolio theory, but less so in corporate finance. In this paper, I propose a conceptual framework for applying behavioral ideas to the main topics which comprise corporate finance, and call the...
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Previous work on exit in declining industries has neglected mergers. We examine a simple model that predicts which declining industries experience horizontal mergers. Mergers are more likely if 1) market concentration is high; 2) the inverse demand curve is steep at high levels of output and...
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