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Synergistic gains from corporate acquisitions and their division between the stockholders of target and acquiring firms (1988)

Abstract
This paper documents that a successful tender offer increases the combined value of the target and acquiring firms by an average of 7.4%. We also provide a theoretical analysis of the process of competition for control of the target and empirical evidence that competition among bidding firms increases the returns to targets and decreases the returns to acquirers, that the supply of target shares is positively sloped, and that changes in the legal/institutional environment of tender offers have had no impact on the total (percentage) synergistic gains created but have significantly affected their division between the stockholders of the target and acquiring firms.. Peer Reviewed. http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/27298/1/0000318.pdf

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/27298
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0304-405X(88)90030-X
Publisher Elsevier
Contributors University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Repository University of Michigan (United States)
Keywords Finance, Business and Economics
Language English

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