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The Winner's Curse and Bidder Competition in Acquisitions: Evidence from Failed Bank Auctions

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  • Giliberto, S Michael
  • Varaiya, Nikhil P
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    Auction theory predictions are used to test if winning bidders overpay (the "winner's curse") in FDIC sealed-bid auctions of failed banks. The authors find that winning bids tend to increase as the number of competitors increases, as predicted by theory. Further, bid levels of all bidders increase with increased competition, which is consistent with bidders' failing to adjust for the winner's curse in a common value auction setting. However, additional tests, using only winning bids, only are consistent with both a common value and a private values model, so this result should be interpreted with caution. Copyright 1989 by American Finance Association.

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    Article provided by American Finance Association in its journal Journal of Finance.

    Volume (Year): 44 (1989)
    Issue (Month): 1 (March)
    Pages: 59-75

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    1. Roy Gardner & Roger Stover, 1998. "The Role of Information in Resolution Trust Corporation Auctions of Failed Thrifts," Journal of Financial Services Research, Springer, vol. 14(3), pages 209-221, December.
    2. AndréS GóMez-Lobo & Stefan Szymanski, 2001. "A Law of Large Numbers: Bidding and Compulsory Competitive Tendering for Refuse Collection Contracts," Review of Industrial Organization, Springer, vol. 18(1), pages 105-113, February.
    3. Christopher J. Meyer, 1993. "Assessing the performance of real estate auctions," Working Papers 93-1, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
    4. Howell, Jann C. & Stover, Roger D., 2002. "How much do governance and managerial behavior matter in investment decisions? Evidence from failed thrift auctions," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 8(3), pages 195-211, July.
    5. Wladimir Andreff, 2012. "The winner's curse: why is the cost of sports mega-events so often underestimated?," Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers) halshs-00703466, HAL.
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    7. Stover, Roger D., 1997. "Early resolution of troubled financial institutions: An examination of the accelerated resolution program," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 21(8), pages 1179-1194, August.
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    9. Cochran, Bruce & Rose, Lawrence C. & Fraser, Donald R., 1995. "A market evaluation of FDIC assisted transactions," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 19(2), pages 261-279, May.
    10. Jean-Jacques Laffont, 1998. "Théorie des jeux et économie empirique : le cas des données issues d'enchères," Économie et Prévision, Programme National Persée, vol. 132(1), pages 121-137.
    11. Peter Cramton, 1995. "Money Out of Thin Air: The Nationwide Narrowband PCS Auction," Papers of Peter Cramton 95jems, University of Maryland, Department of Economics - Peter Cramton, revised 09 Jun 1998.
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    13. James A. Berkovec & John J. Mingo & Xuechun Zhang, 1997. "Premiums in private versus public bank branch sales," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 1997-33, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).

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