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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Takeovers."”.
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Employment Effects of Corporate Takeovers
… better understanding the employment effects of takeovers. We investigate this issue in four empirical chapters. The first empirical chapter shows that acquired firms’ prior performance is the key variable in explaining post-takeover workforce adjustments: acquired firms’ poorer performance leads …
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Information Environment and Gains from Corporate Takeovers
… wealth effects of information environment on UK takeovers. It regards information dissemination as a process inherent in takeover announcements, along which, factors capturing the characteristics of information sender, information content, information recipient and market condition, are addressed …
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State Takeovers of School Districts: A Review of a Case District
… cities are paving the way for school district takeovers across America. Purpose: The purpose of this mixed methods research study was to explore state and federal policies that drive school closures in Texas and to explore the effects of school closures using the case of one Texas school …
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Takeovers and the protection of non-shareholding stakeholders’ interests in the UK
… carries out an assessment on the extent to which takeovers impact on the interests of employees, suppliers and senior management. Second, the primacy enjoyed by shareholders during takeovers is subject to scrutiny to determine whether their decision making powers can be rightly exercised to the …
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Implications of investment banks’ reputation and specialisation on initial public offerings and corporate takeovers
This research thesis examines the implications of investment bank reputation and specialisation on the outcomes of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and initial public offering (IPO) settings. With regards to M&A settings, we study the impact of top-tier and boutique investment banks acting as …
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Defensive tactics against takeovers in theory and practice in the USA, the UK, South Africa, Germany and the EU
… a more moderate takeover market. Nonetheless takeovers nowadays are a major issue all over the industrialised world, in economic and legal circles as well as in society. One rather eccentric American author has even compared the takeover issue with the national debt, defence spending, and …
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Three essays on corporate acquisitions, bidders' liquidity, and monitoring
… Evidence from Successful and Unsuccessful Takeovers”, I examine the impact of corporate acquisitions on bidders’ liquidity. I find that liquidity improves for bidders that complete the takeovers but remains unchanged or decreases for unsuccessful bidders. Takeovers of public firms result in …
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Examining the Effectiveness of the UK Non-frustration Legislation in a Time of Crisis
… takeover regulations, namely The City Code on Takeovers and Mergers, in a period of crisis. The crisis period under study is the Covid-19 crisis spanning between 25 March 2020 to 25 March 2022, during which the number of takeovers of British companies reached a 14-year high. The aim of this …
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Offers of compromises and schemes of arrangements in South African Company Law
… why people want to. acquire companies. Although takeovers are an extremely dangerous and high risk game, they are becoming more and more numerous in the modern business world. An acquiror, however, tries to minimize his risk by trying to take over a company with a scheme of arrangement applying …
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Offers of compromises and schemes of arrangements in South African company law
… why people want to acquire companies. Although takeovers are an extremely dangerous and high risk game, they are becoming more and more numerous in the modern business world. An acquiror, however, tries to minimize his risk by trying to take over a company with a scheme of arrangement applying …
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Employee protection in mergers and acquisitions
The acquisition of companies by means of takeovers, or transfers is a frequent occurrence in modem industrialised world. The process of takeover of one company by another, or of amalgamation of one company with another or of merger of one company into group of companies may take place in a variety …
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THE IMPACT OF MANAGERIAL OVERCONFIDENCE AND INVESTOR SENTIMENT ON BIDDERS’ ABNORMAL RETURNS
… investigates the hubris hypothesis for corporate takeovers (Roll (1986)). This thesis examines whether overconfident managers destroy shareholder value (in public deals) or whether their actions generally lead to lower wealth effects (in private deals) relative to rational bidders. Bidders’ short …
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Use of modern machine learning techniques to predict the occurrence and outcome of corporate takeover events
… learning to predict the occurrence of corporate takeovers. The findings show that random forest yields the best predictions out-of-sample based on the area under the curve (AUC) metric. As such, 8 independent variables are considered statistically significant. A time series machine learning …
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Financial reporting quality and the quiet Life by Mihir N. Mehta.
… find that managers shielded from the threat of takeovers exert less effort to maximize firm value, consistent with a 'quiet life' hypothesis. I study whether the governance role of financial reporting can mitigate adverse effects arising from managerial preferences for a quiet life. I …
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Financial characteristics of takeover targets in the gaming industry
… took place from 1989 to 1999. Decisions in takeovers may be affected by financial or non-financial factors. Since non-financial factors are hard to measure and quantify for analysis, this study investigates the financial characteristics of takeover target firms in the gaming industry; …
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An analysis of wealth effect to shareholders of the lodging industry in mergers and acquisitions
… industry; The result indicated that corporate takeovers generate, on average, significant positive additional gains to shareholders of acquiring firms of non-casino hotel firms and shareholders of target firms of both non-casino and casino hotel firms. Shareholders of acquiring firms of …
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Exploring the Influence of Anger on Takeover Performance in Semi-automated Vehicles
… simulator, 36 participants performed takeovers in semi-automated vehicle on a 3-lane highway. Between takeovers, participants performed a secondary task (i.e., online game) on a tablet. There were no significant differences in takeover reaction time between angry and neutral drivers. …
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The Political Future of Cities: Camden, New Jersey and the Municipal Rehabilitation and Economic Recovery Act of 2002
… makes several points of comparison with state takeovers in similarly sized and situated cities. Critics of state takeovers point out that they are unconstitutional and call into question the imposition of state-appointed managers to take over control from democratically elected public …
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