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Evaluating and analyzing firms investment decisions: A study of UK domestic and cross-border acquisitions [PDF]
, 2011 This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.This thesis consists of four essays or chapters that investigate acquisitions made by UK firms.
Adel, Nour
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Acquisition experience and the winner’s curse in corporate acquisitions
Applied Economics, 2023 The winner’s curse describes the behavioural phenomenon that the winner of a bidding contest pays a price that is too high. This paper shows that experiential learning cannot prevent a winner’s curse on the market of corporate control as acquiring firms with acquisition experience still pay a higher price for the target in a bidding contest ...
Marta Arroyabe, Katrin Hussinger
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Artificial Intelligence, 2017 Constraint programming is used to model and solve complex combina- torial problems. The modeling task requires some expertise in constraint programming. This requirement is a bottleneck to the broader uptake of constraint technology. Several approaches have been proposed to assist the non-expert user in the modelling task. This paper presents the basic
Bessiere, Christian +3 more
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Journal of Political Economy, 2018 This paper argues incumbent firms may acquire innovative targets solely to discontinue the target’s innovation projects and preempt future competition. We call such acquisitions “killer acquisitions.” We develop a model illustrating this phenomenon. Using pharmaceutical industry data, we show that acquired drug projects are less likely to be developed ...
Cunningham, C M, Ederer, F, Ma, S
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Target company cross-border effects in acquisitions into the UK [PDF]
, 2004 We analyse the abnormal returns to target shareholders in crossborder and domestic acquisitions of UK companies. The crossborder effect during the bid month is small (0.84%), although crossborder targets gain significantly more than domestic targets ...
Danbolt, J.
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Acquisition of complementation
Journal of Child Language, 1989 ABSTRACTThis study concerns the acquisition of complex sentences with perception and epistemic verbs that take a second verb in their complements. The acquisition of complementation began between two and three years of age in this longitudinal study of four children's spontaneous speech.
Bloom, Lois +3 more
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Management Science, 2017 Speed is a salient feature of modern financial markets. This paper studies investors’ speed acquisition together with their information acquisition. Speed heterogeneity arises in equilibrium, fragmenting the information aggregation process with a nonmonotone impact on price informativeness. Various competition effects drive speed and information to be
Shiyang Huang, Bart Zhou Yueshen
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Lexical acquisition through acquisition order [PDF]
, 2013 It is often noted in the literature that typical instances of categories denoted by lexical items are acquired earlier than atypical instances. Yet, a line of empirical studies that were left relatively unnoticed provide evidence to an additional generalization.
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Queueing Systems, 2007 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Dee Denteneer +2 more
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