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| Title: | Cost Inefficiency, Size of Firms, and Takeovers |
| Authors: | Frydman, Halina
Frydman, Roman
Trimbath, Susanne |
| Keywords: | Corporate Finance and Governance
Mergers, Acquisitions
Econometric Methods
Models with Panel Data
Truncated and Censored Models |
| Issue Date: | 2000 |
| Series/Report no.: | FIN-00-061 |
| Abstract: | This study, using the Cox proportional hazards model, finds that the
risk of takeover rises with cost inefficiency. It also finds that a firm
faces a significantly higher risk of takeover if its cost performance
lags behind its industry benchmark. These findings, moreover, appear to
be remarkably stable over the nearly two decades spanned by the sample.
The effect of the variables measuring the risk-size relationship,
however, indicate temporal changes. Lastly, the study presents evidence
from fixed-effects models of ex post cost efficiency improvements that
support the hypothesis that takeover targets are selected based on the
potential for improvement. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2451/27380 |
| Appears in Collections: | Finance Working Papers
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