Strategic and Financial Bidders in Takeover Auctions

Using data on auctions of companies, we estimate valuations (maximum willingness to pay) of strategic and financial bidders from their bids. We find that a typical target is valued higher by strategic bidders. However, 22.4% of targets in our sample are valued higher by financial bidders. These are...

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Main Authors: Gorbenko, Alexander S., Malenko, Andrey
Outros autores: Sloan School of Management
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:en_US
Publicado: American Finance Association/Wiley 2015
Acceso en liña:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98906
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6429-850X