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The Importance of the Bidder Motive in the Wealth Effect of Takeovers

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  • Constance Phelizon

    (TEAM - Université Paris 1, CNRS)

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Event studies on shareholder wealth effects of American and French takeovers find out that targets clearly gain, and bidders do not lose. We estimate in this study the abnormal returns associated with takeovers in the French market during the period of intense acquisition activity of 1991-1997. We find out the classic result that takeovers contribute to an increase in the target expected profitability but yields no short-term profits for the bidder. We improve these finfings further by testing the hypotheses of the literature accounting for wealth creation associated with takeovers. We put ahead the importance of the bidder motive for the target expected value. Actually, operations that were not industrially justified by the development of the bidder activity, either by the expansion of its productive capacity or by its vertical integration, were found to generate non-significant abnormal returns. These findings seem to support the synergy hypothesis. Nevertheless we do not solve the bidder enigma, as long as industrially justified takeover abnormal returns remain unsignificant for this subsample

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  • Constance Phelizon, 2000. "The Importance of the Bidder Motive in the Wealth Effect of Takeovers," Cahiers de la Maison des Sciences Economiques bla00051, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1).
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    Keywords

    Takeovers; Industrial Synergies; Event Study Methodology;
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    JEL classification:

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

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