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There is a growing concern that U.S. merger control may have been too lenient, but empirical evidence remains limited … reviewing the use and challenges of event studies in merger analysis, I use a novel application of Hoberg-Phillips (2010, 2016 ….S. mergers between 1997 and 2017. I document that following a merger announcement, the most likely competitors experience on …
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higher takeover premiums relative to their non-cross-listed peers. Moreover, shareholders of Sarbanes-Oxley-compliant targets …
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The recent merger between US Airways and American Airlines was approved by federal and state antitrust authorities … anticompetitive effects from this merger. The economics literature offers many reasons why such stock-market event studies should not … unrelated to competitive harms, such as when a merger changes expectations that one or more rivals will be “in play” (i.e., a …
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attributed to either the collusion, productive efficiency, acquisition probability or pre-emptive merger hypothesis. In contrast …
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This study examines the impact of merger and acquisition (M&A) announcements made by U.S. companies listed on New York …
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This paper investigates the value successful bidders generate from acquiring less liquid targets. This synergy is traced with both theoretical and empirical evidence from the squeeze-out stage of going private transactions, when bidders hold sizeable toeholds in target shares. On one side, via...
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I examine how financial markets interact with news about the COVID-19 pandemic. A twelve topic model optimizes the trade-off between number of topics and topic coherence. Using this model, I show that before mid-March 2020 markets react more to the same quantum of news when volatility is higher...
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This paper empirically analyses the effect of foreign block acquisitions on the U.S. target firms' credit risk as captured by their CDS. The involvement of foreign investors leads to a significant increase in the target firms' CDS spreads. This effect is stronger when foreign owners are...
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While empirical studies that use event-study methodology find on average that the gains from mergers and acquisitions are positive, those focusing on accounting figures tend to find a significant drop in performance. We argue that each of the four possible combinations between positive or...
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The winner-takes-all business model followed by many U.S. Internet firms predicts that spending on intangibles will exhibit increasing profitability returns-to-scale. That is, larger expenditures should be more profitable per dollar of investment than small expenditures because larger...
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