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Past research shows that the outcomes of acquisitions of private firms are better than those of public firms. This finding is commonly explained by the price discount due to illiquidity and the higher information risk involved in acquiring private firms. Existing studies do not separate the two...
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Cash- and stock-financed takeover bids induce strikingly different target revaluations. We exploit detailed data on … unsuccessful takeover bids between 1980 and 2008, and show that targets of cash offers are revalued on average by 15% after deal … longer horizons. We find no evidence that future takeover activities or operational changes explain these differences …
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Some bidders voluntarily announce a merger negotiation before the definitive agreement. We propose an “announce-to-signal” explanation to these early announcements: they allow bidders to signal to target shareholders high synergies so as to overcome negotiation frictions and improve success...
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We empirically examine the impact of bank consolidation on bank acquisition of soft information about borrowers. Using a dataset of small business financing, we find that mergers of small banks have a negative impact on soft information acquisition, whereas mergers of large banks have no impact....
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