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Effects of Competition on Bidder Returns

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  • Sankar De Mark Fedenia and Alexander J. Triantis.

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This study offers several new perspectives on the effects of competition in takeover contests on bidder returns. Using a more extensive database than existing studies and employing several different measures of success in a takeover, we find that success in competitive acquisitions decreases shareholder wealth relative to failure and also relative to success in observed single-bidder takeovers. Further, we consider and test a number of hypotheses regarding bidder returns, including hypotheses suggested by the preemptive bidding theory. In general, our results indicate lack of support for the predictions of preemptive bidding theory and for the hypotheses linking the method of payment and the observed level of competition. We also test hypotheses relating to returns across the multiple events in a multiple-bid contest that competition among bidders generates. The results of these tests underscore the importance of timing as well as success of a bid to the bidder's subsequent performance.

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  • Sankar De Mark Fedenia and Alexander J. Triantis., 1995. "Effects of Competition on Bidder Returns," Research Program in Finance Working Papers RPF-246, University of California at Berkeley.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucb:calbrf:rpf-246
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