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The Young and the Restless : A Study of Age and Acquisition Propensity of CEOs of U.K. Firms

Zhang, Tim - 2016

Using a large sample of CEOs of U.K. firms, we show that CEO age is a key determinant of acquisition activity. We find that younger CEOs are more likely to acquire another firm and spend more on large capital expenditures. We argue that while younger CEOs of both U.K. and U.S. firms undertake...

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Going Private Transactions and Firm Innovation : Evidence from Japanese Management Buy-outs

Kawanishi, Takuya - 2021

This paper empirically examines the impact of exiting the stock market on corporate innovation activities using Japanese going private type MBO data. Difference-in-differences analysis in regression framework is implemented on panel data consisting of firms that conducted public-to-private MBO...

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Managerial Talk of Trust and Takeover Performance

Ghufran, Bushra - 2021

of SEC filings (10-K Form) and the prognostic power of such language for takeover performance. The sample under study … long-term takeover performance, suggesting that managerial virtuous talk is, in practicality, an indication of lower post …-acquisition gains for the acquirers in the long run. Furthermore, takeover returns are found to reflect textual information on trust …

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