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Cross-ownership, returns and voting in mergers
We show that institutional shareholders of acquiring companies on average do not lose money around public merger announcements, because they also hold substantial stakes in the targets and make up for the losses from the former with the gains from the latter. Depending...
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- January 1999
- Article
An Analysis of Value Destruction and Recovery in the Alliance and Proposed Merger of Volvo and Renault
By: Robert Bruner
Volvo's attempt to merge with Renault in 1993 temporarily destroyed SEK 8.6 billion (US$ 1.1 billion) in Volvo shareholder wealth. This study traces the destruction to hubris, managerialism, and the escalation of commitment—elements suggested in previous research. In...
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Keywords:
Mergers & Acquisitions;
Institutional Investors;
Alliances;
Privatization;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Institutional Investing;
Auto Industry
Bruner, Robert. "An Analysis of Value Destruction and Recovery in the Alliance and Proposed Merger of Volvo and Renault." Journal of Financial Economics 51, no. 1 (January 1999): 125–166.
- October 2009
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Mergers That Stick
Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "Mergers That Stick." Harvard Business Review 87, no. 10 (October 2009).
- November 2010 (Revised July 2011)
- Case
Merck/Schering-Plough Merger (A)
By: David F. Hawkins
Students have to identify the acquirer in a business combination structured as a reverse merger.
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Hawkins, David F. "Merck/Schering-Plough Merger (A)." Harvard Business School Case 111-017, November 2010. (Revised July 2011.)
Price Anchors and Mergers and Acquisitions
Prior stock price peaks of targets affect several aspects of merger and acquisition activity. Offer prices are biased toward recent peak prices although they are economically unremarkable. An offer's probability of acceptance jumps discontinuously when it exceeds a... View Details
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Do Vertical Mergers facilitate Collusion?
Joint work with Volker Nocke, University of Pennsylvania In this paper we investigate the impact of vertical mergers on upstream firms' ability to sustain collusion. We show in a number of models that the net effect of vertical integration is to facilitate... View Details
- May 28, 2015
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The Good Merger
By: Leemore S. Dafny and Thomas H. Lee
Dafny, Leemore S., and Thomas H. Lee. "The Good Merger." New England Journal of Medicine 372, no. 22 (May 28, 2015): 2077–2079.
- 04 Jun 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Political Influence and Merger Antitrust Reviews
- February 2004
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Price Pressure Around Mergers
By: Mark Mitchell, T. Pulvino and Erik Stafford
Mitchell, Mark, T. Pulvino, and Erik Stafford. "Price Pressure Around Mergers." Journal of Finance 59, no. 1 (February 2004): 31–63. (Nominated for Brattle Prize. First Prize Paper for outstanding papers on corporate finance published in the Journal of Finance presented by Brattle Group, Inc.)
- August 2018 (Revised July 2020)
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The Fuji-Xerox Merger (B)
By: Guhan Subramanian and Annie Zhao
Subramanian, Guhan, and Annie Zhao. "The Fuji-Xerox Merger (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 919-005, August 2018. (Revised July 2020.)
- December 2014
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The Real Product Market Impact of Mergers
By: Albert Sheen
I document sources of value creation in mergers by analyzing novel data on the quality and price of goods sold by merging firms. When two competitors in a product market merge, their products converge in quality, and prices fall relative to the competition. These...
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Sheen, Albert. "The Real Product Market Impact of Mergers." Journal of Finance 69, no. 6 (December 2014).
- 21 Apr 2017
- News
Good Riddance to Big Insurance Mergers
- August 2018
- Supplement
The Fuji-Xerox Merger (C)
By: Guhan Subramanian and Annie Zhao
Subramanian, Guhan, and Annie Zhao. "The Fuji-Xerox Merger (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 919-006, August 2018.
- 2002
- Working Paper
Price Pressure Around Mergers
By: Mark Mitchell, Todd Pulvino and Erik Stafford
Mitchell, Mark, Todd Pulvino, and Erik Stafford. "Price Pressure Around Mergers." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 03-029, September 2002.
Acquirer-Target Social Ties and Merger Outcomes
This paper investigates the effect of social ties between acquirers and targets on merger performance. We find that the extent of cross-firm social connection between directors and senior executives at the acquiring and the target firms has a significantly negative...
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Estimation and Identification of Merger Effects: An Application to Hospital Mergers
By: Leemore S. Dafny
Dafny, Leemore S. "Estimation and Identification of Merger Effects: An Application to Hospital Mergers." Journal of Law & Economics 52, no. 3 (August 2009): 523–550.
- 24 Jun 2016
- News
Health insurance mergers put consumers last
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
Massachusetts' Hard Look at Hospital Mergers
- August 2002
- Case
eBay (C): PayPal Merger
By: Frances X. Frei and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar
Supplements the (A) case.
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Frei, Frances X., and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar. "eBay (C): PayPal Merger." Harvard Business School Case 603-042, August 2002.
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Investigating the Economic Role of Mergers (with Erik Stafford)
What is the economic role of mergers? We investigate this issue by performing a comparative study of mergers and other forms of corporate investment, at the industry and firm levels. In our framework, merger activity is motivated by both firm- and industry-level...
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