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Creditor-Focused Corporate Governance: Evidence from Mergers and Acquisitions in Japan

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  • Mehrotra, Vikas
  • Schaik, Dimitri van
  • Spronk, Jaap
  • Steenbeek, Onno

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Mergers in Japan have the dubious distinction of not creating wealth for shareholders of target firms, in sharp contrast to much of the rest of the world. Using a sample of 91 mergers from 1982 through 2003 we document several distinctive features of the merger market in Japan: mergers tend to be countercyclical and often orchestrated by a common main bank. Overall our results point to a market for corporate control that is distinctly less shareholder-focused than that in the U.S., and one where creditors play an important, perhaps dominant, role in corporate governance.

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Paper provided by Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University in its series CEI Working Paper Series with number 2009-01.

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Length: 33 p.
Date of creation: Aug 2009
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Handle: RePEc:hit:hitcei:2009-01
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Keywords: Japanese mergers; Japanese corporate governance;

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  • G30 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - General
  • G34 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Mergers; Acquisitions; Restructuring; Corporate Governance

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  1. Ushijima, Tatsuo & Schaede, Ulrike, 2014. "The market for corporate subsidiaries in Japan: An empirical study of trades among listed firms," Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Elsevier, vol. 31(C), pages 36-52.

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