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How Target Shareholders Benefit from Value-Reducing Defensive Strategies in Takeovers

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  • Berkovitch, Elazar
  • Khanna, Naveen

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This paper shows that target shareholders can be made better-off through the use of certain types of defensive strategies that reduce the value of the target by different amounts for different bidders. In many cases, simply the threat of such strategies can make target shareholders better-off. Therefore, empirical tests based on stock price reactions at the adoption of defensive strategies may be underestimating the effect of such strategies. The paper also identifies the necessary characteristics that make these strategies effective and shows that many observed defenses possess similar properties. Copyright 1990 by American Finance Association.

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  • Berkovitch, Elazar & Khanna, Naveen, 1990. "How Target Shareholders Benefit from Value-Reducing Defensive Strategies in Takeovers," Journal of Finance, American Finance Association, vol. 45(1), pages 137-156, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jfinan:v:45:y:1990:i:1:p:137-56
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