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How do acquisitions affect the mental health of employees?

Bach, Laurent; Baghai, Ramin P.; Bos, Marieke; Silva, Rui - 2021 - This draft: October 2021

Using employer-employee level data linked to individual health records, we document that the incidence of stress, anxiety, depression, psychiatric medication usage, and even suicide increase following acquisitions. These effects are prevalent among employees from both targets and acquirers, in...

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Productivity and the internationalization of firms : cross-border acquisitions versus greenfield investments

Trax, Michaela - 2011

This paper extends the literature on the determinants of international activity at the firm level towards cross-border acquisitions and greenfield investments as different modes of FDI using a rich dataset of British firms. While multinational firms are characterized by higher productivity...

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Retail Customer Reactions to Private Equity Acquisitions

Pursiainen, Vesa; Tykvova, Tereza - 2021

We study short-term changes in customer visits to retail outlets around the announcement of private equity (PE) acquisitions, using aggregated and anonymized mobile phone data covering approximately ten percent of all mobile devices in the United States. Given the monthly frequency of the data,...

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SPACs : post-merger survival

Vulanovic, Milos - 2016

This paper studies how institutional characteristics of Specified Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) are related to their post-merger survival. SPACs are unique financial firms that conduct the IPO with the solely purpose to use the proceeds to acquire another private company. Paper finds...

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Minority Shareholders' Enforcement of Corporate Governance in Takeovers : An English Law Perspective on the Belgian Fortis Bank Case

Lee, Joseph - 2016

The Fortis Bank takeover court case demonstrates how shareholders' claims can make a merger and takeover case less … speedy and, indeed, more costly. The case also raises a number of legal issues relating to corporate governance in a takeover …-market efficiency and social-legal justice in intervening in a financial takeover. The case reveals the divergent views taken by the two …

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The Effects of Cross-Border M&As on the Acquirers’ Domestic Performance – Firm-Level Evidence

Stiebale, Joel; Trax, Michaela S. - 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...

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Stock Market Driven Acquisitions versus the Q Theory of Takeovers - The UK Evidence

BI, XiaoGang; Gregory, Alan - 2009

Using a sample of UK mergers and acquisitions from 1985-2004, we show that equity over-valuation appears to play an important role in the determination of financing method. Our results are broadly consistent with the Sheifer and Vishny (2003) theory of market-driven acquisitions rather than a...

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Mergers and the Evolution of Patterns of Corporate Ownership and Control : The British Experience

Cheffins, Brian R. - 2010

An intense academic debate has arisen recently concerning the crucial bedrock that underpins a corporate governance regime where widely-held public companies dominate. In the discourse, little has been said about the contribution of merger activity. The paper seeks to address this gap by...

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The Reality of the UK Takeover Regulations (with 'Notice to Advisers in Contested Bids' by the Takeover Panel)

Watanabe, Hiroyuki - 2020

This is a short article on UK takeover regulations and was prepared for the meetings with the specialists on Takeovers … on the wall of the waiting room of the UK Takeover Panel …

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Does monetary policy affect mergers and acquisitions?

Fischer, Johannes; Horn, Carl-Wolfram - 2021 - This version: March 1, 2021

We analyse the effects of monetary policy on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in the United States, both on the aggregate and the firm level. We find that aggregate M&A activity decreases significantly following a monetary policy shock. The aggregate results are confirmed by an analysis...

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