Essays on the Geographical, Product, and Technological Dimensions of the Market for Corporate Control

Download or read book Essays on the Geographical, Product, and Technological Dimensions of the Market for Corporate Control written by Marco Testoni and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) play a central role in companies' strategies. This dissertation investigates how the location of merging companies and their competitors in the geographical, product market, or technological space influences key aspects of M&As, including the takeover price, the acquiring and the target companies' returns, the method of payment, and the spillover effects on the valuation of competitors. In particular, Chapter 1 studies how the geographical location of acquiring and target companies affects the competitiveness of the acquisition process and therefore the acquisition price. Chapter 2 investigates whether face-to-face interactions with the target's employees before an acquisition provide informational advantages to the acquirer and translate into higher acquisition returns. Chapter 3 looks at the perspective of the seller and studies how the geographical distance to the acquiring company affects the seller's incentives to retain partial ownership of the combined entity. Chapter 4 analyzes the market value spillovers of an acquisition announcement on competitors, and proposes a way to empirically disentangle the negative product market rivalry effect from a positive technological signaling effect.