Title
Two step acquisitions and liquidity spread
Department/School
Finance
Date of this version
2013
Document Type
Article
Keywords
Tender-merger, Mergers and Acquisitions, Liquidity, Bargaining Power, Synergy
Abstract
We hypothesize that macro-level liquidity affects the choice between tender-mergers and mergers. We employ a novel methodology to test this relationship. This method finds structural breaks in the number of tender-mergers relative to mergers and finds that the structural breaks coincide strikingly well with major changes in macro-level liquidity. Consistent with our hypotheses our regression analysis finds that the number of tender offers increases with liquidity and also that the acquirer’s share of synergy increases as tender-mergers increase.
Published in
Journal of Economics and Finance.
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