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Un Estudio Empirico Sobre Las Motivaciones De Las Adquisiciones Parciales En La Bolsa Española

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  • Matilde O. Fernández

    (Universitat de València)

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This paper analyses the motivations for inter-company investment on the Spanish stock market through the study of a sample of significant acquisitions reported to the CNMV by firms quoted on the continuous market. By analysing the sign of the cumulative abnormal returns (CAR) and of the correlations among the gains produced by the operation, we attempt to find out which motives predominate of the three most important ones suggested by the literature for takeovers: synergy, agency and hubris. Empirical evidence is presented that in the Spanish stock market the main motive for acquiring a holding is similar to synergy, especially in partial acquisitions with positive total gains. However, in the samples with negative total gains a main motive similar to hubris always appears clearly. In our analysis we take into account the size of the investment and distinguish between the first report and subsequent ones. Our results are similar to those obtained by other authors for takeovers in the American market, except that in our samples agency motives do not appear clearly. Nuestro trabajo analiza las motivaciones de la inversión inter-empresas en el mercado bursátil español a través del estudio de una muestra de tomas de participación significativas comunicadas a la CNMV por empresas que cotizan en el mercado continuo. Analizando el signo de las rentabilidades anormales acumuladas (CAR) y de las correlaciones entre los beneficios que produce la operación, intentamos averiguar que tipo de motivos predominan de entre los tres más importantes que sugiere la literatura para las tomas de control: sinergia, agencia y hubris. Se presenta evidencia empírica de que en la Bolsa española el motivo principal de una toma de participación es similar al de sinergia, especialmente en las adquisiciones parciales con beneficios totales positivos. No obstante, en las muestras con beneficios totales negativos siempre aparece claramente un motivo principal similar al hubris. En nuestro análisis tenemos en cuenta el tamaño de la inversión y distinguimos entre el primer anuncio y sucesivos. Nuestros resultados son similares a los obtenidos por otros autores sobre tomas de control en el mercado americano, excepto que en nuestras muestras no aparecen claros los motivos de agencia.

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  • Matilde O. Fernández, 2001. "Un Estudio Empirico Sobre Las Motivaciones De Las Adquisiciones Parciales En La Bolsa Española," Working Papers. Serie EC 2001-08, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie).
  • Handle: RePEc:ivi:wpasec:2001-08
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