This file is part of IDEAS, which uses RePEc data


[ Papers | Articles | Software | Books | Chapters | Authors | Institutions | JEL Classification | NEP reports | Search | New papers by email | Author registration | Rankings | Volunteers | FAQ | Blog | Help! ]

Citations for "Risk Reduction as a Managerial Motive for Conglomerate Mergers"

by Yakov Amihud & Baruch Lev

For a complete description of this item, click here.
Cited by (explanations, Please report citation or reference errors to , or , if you are the registered author of the cited work, log in to your RePEc Author Service profile, click on "citations" and make appropriate adjustments.):
  1. Rebecca S. Demsetz & Philip E. Strahan, 1995. "Diversification, size, and risk at bank holding companies," Research Paper 9506, Federal Reserve Bank of New York. [Downloadable!]
  2. Baris Serifsoy, 2007. "Stock Exchange Business Models and Their Operative Performance - Empirical Evidence," Working Paper Series: Finance and Accounting 158, Department of Finance, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. [Downloadable!]
  3. Nancy L. Rose & Andrea Shepard, 1994. "Firm Diversification and CEO Compensation: Managerial Ability or Executive Entrenchment?," NBER Working Papers 4723, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  4. Malmendier, Ulrike M. & Tate, Geoffrey, 2003. "Who Makes Acquisitions? CEO Overconfidence and the Market's Reaction," Research Papers 1798, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business. [Downloadable!]
  5. Andrew B. Bernard & Peter K. Schott & Stephen Redding, 2003. "Product Choice and Product Switching," NBER Working Papers 9789, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
    Other versions:
  6. Glaser, Markus & Müller, Sebastian, 2006. "Der Diversification Discount in Deutschland: Existiert ein Bewertungsabschlag für diversifizierte Unternehmen?," Sonderforschungsbereich 504 Publications 06-13, Sonderforschungsbereich 504, Universität Mannheim & Sonderforschungsbereich 504, University of Mannheim. [Downloadable!]
  7. Luc Laeven & Ross Levine, 2005. "Is There a Diversification Discount in Financial Conglomerates?," NBER Working Papers 11499, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
    Other versions:
  8. Ammon, Norbert, 1998. "Why Hedge? - A Critical Review of Theory and Empirical Evidence -," ZEW Discussion Papers 98-18, ZEW - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung / Center for European Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
  9. Lois Mahoney & Linda Thorn, 2006. "An Examination of the Structure of Executive Compensation and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Canadian Investigation," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 69(2), pages 149-162, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  10. Rajdeep Singh, 1995. "Takeover Bidding with Toeholds: The Case of the Owner's Curse," Finance 9503001, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
  11. Richard J. Rosen, 2001. "Do regulators search for the quiet life? the relationship between regulators and the regulated in banking," Working Paper Series WP-01-05, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. [Downloadable!]
  12. Ana I. Fernández & Silvia Gómez-Ansón, 1999. "Un estudio de las Ofertas Públicas de Adquisición en el mercado de valores español," Investigaciones Economicas, Fundación SEPI, vol. 23(3), pages 471-495, September. [Downloadable!]
  13. Lucian Bebchuk & Yaniv Grinstein, 2005. "Firm Expansion and CEO Pay," NBER Working Papers 11886, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  14. Low, Angie & Makhija, Anil K. & Sanders, Anthony B., 2007. "The Impact of Shareholder Power on Bondholders: Evidence from Mergers and Acquisitions," Working Paper Series 2007-5, Ohio State University, Charles A. Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics. [Downloadable!]
  15. Acharya, Viral V & Hasan, Iftekhar & Saunders, Anthony, 2002. "The Effects of Focus and Diversification on Bank Risk and Return: Evidence from Individual Bank Loan Portfolios," CEPR Discussion Papers 3252, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
    Other versions:
  16. Gary Gorton & Matthias Kahl & Richard Rosen, 2005. "Eat or Be Eaten: A Theory of Mergers and Merger Waves," NBER Working Papers 11364, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  17. Adrian Gourlay & Jonathan Seaton, 2004. "The determinants of firm diversification in UK quoted companies," Applied Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 36(18), pages 2059-2071, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  18. Mitchell Berlin, 1999. "Jack of all trades? Product diversification in nonfinancial firms," Business Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, issue May, pages 15-29. [Downloadable!]
  19. Acharya, Viral V & Bisin, Alberto, 2002. "Entrepreneurial Incentives in Stock Market Economies," CEPR Discussion Papers 3474, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  20. Javier Gimeno, 2002. "The performance effects of unintended and purposive multimarket contact," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 23(4-5), pages 209-224. [Downloadable!]
  21. Artyom Durnev & Randall Morck & Bernard Yeung, 2001. "Does Firm-specific Information in Stock Prices Guide Capital Allocation?," NBER Working Papers 8093, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  22. Benjamin Hermalin & Michael Katz, 2000. "Corporate Diversification and Agency," Research Program in Finance, Working Paper Series 1004, Research Program in Finance, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley. [Downloadable!]
    Other versions:
  23. Cole, Rebel & Fatemi, Ali & Vu, Joseph, 2006. "Do mergers create or destroy value? Evidence from unsuccessful mergers," MPRA Paper 4717, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
  24. Manuel Becerra & Juan Santalo, 2005. "The Dominance of Diversified Versus Specialized Firms Across Industries," Working Papers Economia wp05-06, Instituto de Empresa, Area of Economic Environment. [Downloadable!]
    Other versions:
  25. Ekkehart Boehmer, . "Business Groups, Bank Control and Large Shareholders: An Analysis of German Takeovers," Working Papers 1999.20, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei. [Downloadable!]
  26. Banal - Estanol, Albert & Ottaviani, Marco, 2005. "Mergers with Product Market Risk," CEPR Discussion Papers 4831, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
    Other versions:
  27. Caldart, Adrian & Ricart, Joan E., 2003. "Corporate strategy revisited: A view from complexity theory," IESE Research Papers D/528, IESE Business School. [Downloadable!]
  28. Klaus Gugler & Dennis C. Mueller & B. Burcin Yurtoglu, 2005. "The determinants of merger waves," Working Papers 05-15, Utrecht School of Economics. [Downloadable!]
    Other versions:
  29. Jandik, Tomas & Makjija, Anil K., 2004. "Can Diversification Create Value? Evidence from the Electric Utility Industry," Working Paper Series 2005-7, Ohio State University, Charles A. Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics. [Downloadable!]
  30. David Hyland, 2008. "The long-run performance of diversifying firms," Journal of Economics and Finance, Springer, vol. 32(3), pages 294-310, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  31. Gedajlovic, E.R. & Yoshikawa, T. & Hashimoto, M., 2001. "Ownership Structure, Investment Behavior and Firm Performance in Japanese Manufacturing Industries," Research Paper ERS-2001-09-STR Revision_, Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM is the joint research institute of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) at Erasmus Uni. [Downloadable!]
  32. Lex Donaldson, 2008. "Ethics Problems and Problems with Ethics: Toward a Pro-Management Theory," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 78(3), pages 299-311, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  33. Andrew P. Dickerson & Heather D. Gibson & Euclid Tsakalotos, 1998. "Takeover Risk and the Market for Corporate Control: The Experience of British Firms in the 1970s and 1980s," Studies in Economics 9803, Department of Economics, University of Kent. [Downloadable!]
    Other versions:
  34. Sven-Olof Collin, 2007. "Governance strategy: a property right approach turning governance into action," Journal of Management and Governance, Springer, vol. 11(3), pages 215-237, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  35. Cole, Rebel & Mehran, Hamid, 2007. "What can we learn from privately held firms about executive compensation?," MPRA Paper 4710, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
    Other versions:
  36. Felipe Balmaceda, 2002. "Corporate Diversification: Good for Some Bad for Others," Documentos de Trabajo 141, Centro de Economía Aplicada, Universidad de Chile. [Downloadable!]
  37. Belen Villalonga, 2001. "Diversification Discount or Premium? New Evidence from BITS Establishment-Level Data," Working Papers 01-13, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau. [Downloadable!]
  38. R. Glenn Hubbard & Darius Palia, 1996. "Benefits of Control, Managerial Ownership, and the Stock Returns of Acquiring Firms," NBER Working Papers 5079, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
    Other versions:
  39. Fahlenbrach, Rudiger, 2006. "Founder-CEOs, Investment Decisions, and Stock Market Performance," Working Paper Series 2004-20, Ohio State University, Charles A. Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics. [Downloadable!]
  40. Bardhan, Ashok & Tang, John, 2006. "Diversified Occupations, Offshoring and Labor Market Volatility," MPRA Paper 3168, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 01 Jun 2007. [Downloadable!]
  41. Andreas Roider, 2007. "Risk, Delegation, and Project Scope," IZA Discussion Papers 3117, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
  42. Allen N. Berger & J. David Cummins & Mary A. Weiss & Hongmin Zi, 2000. "Conglomeration Versus Strategic Focus: Evidence from the Insurance Industry," Center for Financial Institutions Working Papers 99-29, Wharton School Center for Financial Institutions, University of Pennsylvania. [Downloadable!]
    Other versions:
  43. Martynova, Marina & Renneboog, L.D.R., 2006. "Mergers and Acquisitions in Europe," Discussion Paper 3, Tilburg University, Tilburg Law and Economic Center. [Downloadable!]
    Other versions:
  44. Acharya, Viral V & Amihud, Yakov & Litov, Lubomir P., 2008. "Creditor Rights and Corporate Risk-taking," CEPR Discussion Papers 6697, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  45. Matthias Kahl & Jun Liu & Francis A. Longstaff, 2002. "Paper millionaires: How valuable is stock to a stockholder who is restricted from selling it?," NBER Working Papers 8969, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  46. Durand, Rodolphe & Lubatkin, Michael H., 2006. "The missing lens in family firm governance theory: a self-other typology of parental altruism," Les Cahiers de Recherche 839, HEC Paris. [Downloadable!]
  47. Belen Villalonga, 2000. "Does Diversification Cause the "Diversification Discount"?," University of California at Los Angeles, Anderson Graduate School of Management 1079, Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA. [Downloadable!]
  48. Daniele Cerrato & Mariacristina Piva, 2007. "The Internationalization of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises: the Effect of Family Management, Human Capital and Foreign Ownership," DISCE - Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali dises0748, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche (DISCE). [Downloadable!]
  49. Holger M. Mueller, 2000. "Project Bundling, Liquidity Spillovers, and Capital Market Discipline," Econometric Society World Congress 2000 Contributed Papers 0681, Econometric Society. [Downloadable!]
  50. Renneboog, L.D.R. & Szilagyi, Peter G., 2006. "Corporate restructuring and bondholder wealth," Discussion Paper 23, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
    Other versions:
  51. Joshua Abor, 2008. "Determinants of the Capital Structure of Ghanaian Firms," Research Papers RP_176, African Economic Research Consortium. [Downloadable!]
  52. Antoine Renucci, 2008. "Access to financing, rents, and organization of the firm," Post-Print halshs-00365983_v1, HAL. [Downloadable!]
  53. Ekaterina Emm & Jayant Kale, 2006. "Efficiency Implications of Corporate Diversification: Evidence from Micro Data," Working Papers 06-26, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau. [Downloadable!]
  54. Gomes, Joao F & Livdan, Dmitry, 2002. "Optimal Diversification," CEPR Discussion Papers 3461, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  55. Gammelgaard, Jens, 2001. "Time and Path Dependencies in Foreign Acquisition Behaviours The History of Danish Takeovers Abroad 1888 to 1993," Working Papers 3-2001, Copenhagen Business School, Department of International Economics and Management. [Downloadable!]
  56. A Cosh & P Guest & A Hughes, 2001. "Managerial Discretion and Takeover Performance," ESRC Centre for Business Research - Working Papers wp216, ESRC Centre for Business Research. [Downloadable!]
  57. Peter G. Klein & Marc R. Saidenberg, . "Diversification, Organization, and Efficiency: Evidence from Bank Holding Companies," Center for Financial Institutions Working Papers 97-27, Wharton School Center for Financial Institutions, University of Pennsylvania. [Downloadable!]
  58. Richard J. Sullivan & Kenneth R. Spong, 1998. "How does ownership structure and manager wealth influence risk? : a look at ownership structure, manager wealth, and risk in commercial banks," Financial Industry Perspectives, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, issue Dec, pages 15-40. [Downloadable!]
  59. He, Jinyu & Mahoney, Joseph T., 2006. "Firm Capability, Corporate Governance, and Firm Competitive Behavior: A Multi-theoretic Framework," Working Papers 06-0103, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Business. [Downloadable!]
  60. Hsi-Mei Chung, 2006. "Managerial ties, control and deregulation: An investigation of business groups entering the deregulated banking industry in Taiwan," Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Springer, vol. 23(4), pages 505-520, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  61. Lili Qiu, 2004. "Which Institutional Investors Monitor? Evidence from Acquisition Activity," Working Papers 2004-21, Brown University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
  62. Dick Boer & Dirk Brounen & Hans Op’t Veld, 2005. "Corporate Focus and Stock Performance International Evidence from Listed Property Markets," The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Springer, vol. 31(3), pages 263-281, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  63. Richard J. Rosen, 2004. "Betcha can’t acquire just one: merger programs and compensation," Working Paper Series WP-04-22, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. [Downloadable!]
  64. Weiss, Christoph & Briglauer, Wolfgang, 2002. "Determinants and Dynamics of Farm Diversification," 2002 International Congress, August 28-31, 2002, Zaragoza, Spain 24929, European Association of Agricultural Economists. [Downloadable!]
  65. Martynova, Marina & Renneboog, L.D.R., 2006. "The performance of the European market for corporate control : evidence from the 5th takeover wave," Discussion Paper 118, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
    Other versions:
  66. A. Mitchell Polinsky, 1987. "Fixed Price Versus Spot Price Contracts: A Study in Risk Allocation," NBER Working Papers 1817, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
    Other versions:
  67. João Silva Moura Neto & Nelson Marconi & Paulo Eduardo Moledo Palombo & Paulo Roberto Arvate, 2006. "Vertical Transfers And The Appropriation Of Resources By The Bureaucracy: The Case Of Brazilian State Governments," Anais do XXXIV Encontro Nacional de Economia [Proceedings of the 34th Brazilian Economics Meeting] 136, ANPEC - Associação Nacional dos Centros de Pósgraduação em Economia [Brazilian Association of Graduate Programs in Economics]. [Downloadable!]
    Other versions:
  68. Wolfgang Kürsten, 2003. "Synergetische Merger, Co-Insurance und Shareholder Value, oder: Wer profitiert von "wertschaffenden" Fusionen?," Jenaer Schriften zur Wirtschaftswissenschaft 01/2003, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät. [Downloadable!]
  69. Linda Allen & Julapa Jagtiani & Stavros Peristiani & Anthony Saunders, 2002. "The role of bank advisors in mergers and acquisitions," Staff Reports 143, Federal Reserve Bank of New York. [Downloadable!]
  70. Utz Weitzel & Killian J McCarthy, 2009. "Theory and Evidence on Mergers and Acquisitions by Small and Medium Enterprises," Working Papers 09-21, Utrecht School of Economics. [Downloadable!]
  71. Davide Vannoni, 2000. "Diversification, the Resource View and Productivity: Evidence from Italian Manufacturing Firms," Empirica, Springer, vol. 27(1), pages 47-63, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  72. Gammelgaard, Jens, 1999. "Competence: A Dynamic Extension of the Existing Typology of Acquisition Motives," Working Papers 12-1999, Copenhagen Business School, Department of International Economics and Management. [Downloadable!]
  73. Felipe Balmaceda, 2006. "Mergers and CEO power," Documentos de Trabajo 224, Centro de Economía Aplicada, Universidad de Chile. [Downloadable!]
  74. Jovanovic, B., 1993. "The Diversification of Production," Working Papers 93-11, C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, New York University. [Downloadable!]
  75. William N. Pugh & Sharon L. Oswald & John S. Jahera Jr., 2000. "The effect of ESOP adoptions on corporate performance: are there really performance changes?," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 21(5), pages 167-180. [Downloadable!]
  76. Miguel Hidalgo, Alberto de & Ríos Rodríguez, Diana M., 2007. "Estrategia de Diversificación y Oportunidades de crecimiento: evidencia para el mercado español," Documentos de Trabajo "Nuevas Tendencias en Dirección de Empresas". Working Papers "New Trends on Business Administration". 2007-02, Interuniversitary Doctorate Program "New Trends on Business Administration", Universities of Valladolid, Burgos and Salamanca (Spain). Programa de Doctorado Interuniversitario "Nuevas Tendencias en Di. [Downloadable!]
  77. José Casas-Pardo & Miguel Puchades-Navarro, 2001. "A Critical Comment on Niskanen's Model," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 107(1), pages 147-167, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  78. Pursey P.P.M.A.R. Heugens & Jordan Otten, 2005. "Corporate Governance Reforms around the World," Working Papers 05-08, Utrecht School of Economics. [Downloadable!]
  79. Fabrice Roth, 2000. "Gouvernement des entreprises et stratégie du dirigeant:une étude clinique dans le secteur de l'assurance," Working Papers FARGO 1000701, Université de Bourgogne - Latec/Fargo (Research center in Finance,organizational ARchitecture and GOvernance). [Downloadable!]
  80. Narjess Boubakri & Georges Dionne & Thouraya Triki, 2006. "Consolidation and Value Creation in the Insurance Industry: the Role of Governance," Cahiers de recherche 0626, CIRPEE. [Downloadable!]
    Other versions:
  81. Timothy B. Folta & Jonathan P. O'Brien, 2008. "Determinants of firm-specific thresholds in acquisition decisions," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 29(2-3), pages 209-225. [Downloadable!]

Did you know? IDEAS was sponsored from 1997 to 2002 by the Université du Québec à Montréal.

This page was last updated on 2010-1-4.


This information is provided to you by IDEAS at the Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Connecticut using RePEc data on a server sponsored by the Society for Economic Dynamics.