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Germany as an emerging archipelago economy: On some less obvious implications of corporate takeovers and mergers [PDF]
Übernahme, Räumliche Verteilung, Deutschland, Takeover, Spatial distribution ...
Hans-Martin Zademach
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CEO's Early‐life Experience of Disasters and Corporate Environmental Performance
Abacus, EarlyView.We investigate the nexus between the early‐life disaster experiences of chief executive officers (CEOs) and their firms’ environmental performance metrics. We hypothesize that first‐hand experience of the adversities of natural disasters in the formative years of a CEO can catalyze a transformation in their environmental cognizance and perspective ...
Shushu Liao +2 more
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What is the Price of Hubris? Using Takeover Battles to Infer Overpayments and Synergies [PDF]
We present a framework for determining the information that can be extracted from stock prices around takeover contests. In only two types of cases is it theoretically possible to use stock price movements to infer bidder overpayment and relative ...
David T. Robinson +2 more
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Abacus, EarlyView.We investigate the effects of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board's (PCAOB) international inspection access on the value of cash holdings for non‐US companies. Utilizing a difference‐in‐differences (DiD) research design, we find that investors assign significantly higher value to a non‐US company's cash holdings when the company's non‐US ...
Hsiao‐Tang Hsu, Huichi Huang, Yutao Li
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Price-setting behavior in the presence of social interactions [PDF]
, 2003 We argue in this paper that a more active market for corporate control may weaken the takeover threat. We show that an increase in the number of potential raiders tends to decrease the probability of a takeover. This in turn weakens managerial incentives.
Schoonbeek, Lambert, +1 more
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Broker and institutional investor short selling
Accounting &Finance, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 621-645, March 2025.Abstract Brokers have access to order‐flow data, which they can use to enhance their short‐selling returns. However, New Zealand brokers also have a fiduciary duty to place their clients' interests before their own. We compare the short‐selling returns and trading behaviours of brokers and institutional investors who predominantly focus on profit ...
Ben R. Marshall +3 more
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The Long-Run Performance of Hostile Takeovers: UK Evidence [PDF]
This paper examines the long-run pre- and post-takeover performance of hostile takeovers in the U.K. from 1985-96. Prior to takeover, targets in hostile takeovers experience a significant deterioration in profit returns, and significantly negative share ...
A Cosh, P Guest
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The Lifecycle of Typical IPOs: The Characteristics of Surviving Firms
Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores the dynamics of firm evolution by analysing the timing and sequencing of a firm's innovation, investment, financing and payout decisions following an IPO. We apply real options theory to analyse our sample that includes all IPOs listed on the NYSE, NYSE MKT and NASDAQ since 1976, categorised into surviving, voluntarily ...
Jennifer Gippel +4 more
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Real Effects of Temporary Employees: Evidence From Cost Behaviour
Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between the use of temporary employees and corporate cost behaviour, along with its managerial implications. Utilising a uniquely comprehensive data set on temporary employees from Korea, we find that firms with a higher proportion of temporary employees exhibit greater cost flexibility in response to sales
Sangil Kim, Ho‐Young Lee
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Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 131-159, March 2025.Abstract This study examines the adaptive market hypothesis in the prewar and wartime Japanese stock market using a new market capitalization‐weighted price index. First, we find that the degree of market efficiency varies over time and with major historical events. This implies that the hypothesis is supported in this market.
Kenichi Hirayama, Akihiko Noda
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