Beyond rational behaviour: the non-financial variables that condition shareholder action during a takeover

This article provides experimental evidence that bidder and target shareholders of a takeover announcement exhibit differences in their actions explained by individual traits and by the environment in which investors must decide. These variables should be considered when designing an adequate investor protection policy. Before the crisis, investor protection regulation was based on the rational behaviour hypothesis and characterized by an overreliance on disclosure and financial literacy strategies. However, the new European policy on financial services has acknowledged the lack of adequate protection, and has increased transparency and access to information for investors in MIFID II and MiFIR.     

由胜利股份反收购事件对我国上市公司敌意收购与反收购的思考

由于当前国有股减持的大势所趋、外资并购的遍地开花以及2 0 0 2年底证监会新颁布的《上市公司收购管理办法》对要约收购的鼓励、对上市公司董事会反收购提议和决策权的限制①[1 ] ,上市公司的反收购陷入了被动。提高我国上市公司反收购能力是迫在眉睫的。政府应规定一些切实可行、经济有效的反收购措施,给予目标公司适当保护;而上市公司则更应致力于从内部完善治理结构,MBO是一条值得探索的途径     

International Mergers and Acquisitions Laws,the Market for Corporate Control,and Accounting Conservatism

Exploiting the staggered enactment of country‐level mergers and acquisitions (M&A) law as an exogenous increase in corporate takeover threat, this paper examines how a disciplinary market for corporate control affects accounting conservatism. Following M&A law adoption, we find increased accounting conservatism, with more pronounced effects in countries with weak shareholder protection and in those experiencing larger growth in takeover activity. Further analysis reveals that elevated takeover threats increase conservatism through changes in capital structure and investment decisions as well as improvements in board monitoring. Our findings highlight the importance of the market for corporate control in shaping financial‐reporting outcome.     

中国家族企业步入交接班高峰期

运用实证分析的方法,对个体生命周期规律、新背景与新阶段对家族企业"执帅印者"素质能力的新要求、家族企业创始人的健康问题以及容易遭遇意外事故等几方面的分析发现,中国家族企业正步入创始人向接任者交班的高峰期,各方对此应投入更多的关注,以确保家族企业得到更好的发展.     

TAKEOVER DEFENSES,OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE AND STOCK RETURNS IN THE NETHERLANDS: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS

This study empirically examines the relationships between a firm’s takeover defenses and its ownership structure and stock returns. Analyzing data of Dutch listed companies, we find that multiple antitakeover defenses are increasingly adopted when firms are characterized by relatively lower ownership concentration. The evidence supports the hypothesis that more concentrated ownership of shares provides more effective monitoring of managers. As defense by issuing preferred share has recently been the most widely adopted mechanism in the Netherlands, its impact on shareholders’ wealth is also analyzed. We observe the presence of two opposing effects of this antitakeover measure. © 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

并购的长期财富效应--经验分析结果与协同效应解释

文章分析了并购对目标公司的长期财富效应,认为目标公司在并购后5年获得了巨大的超额收益.并购溢价可以解释目标公司的长期财富效应,并购溢价越高,并购产生的协同效应越大,目标公司的长期财富效应也越大.另外,并购后目标公司在组织形式和产权性质上的变化也会提高公司治理效率,从而增加目标公司的长期财富效应.     

上市公司收购中的信息披露监管

通过研究上市公司收购中信息披露制度的法理价值并充分借鉴英美国家有关信息披露规制方面的法律规范,针对我国目前公司收购领域信息披露的现状,以2006年修订的《上市公司收购管理办法》为基础,着重对信息披露主体、信息披露要求进行了分析。由此认为,我国的信息披露监管应从提高立法效力和建立监管责任机制两方面加以完善。     

Disclosure Regulation and Corporate Acquisitions

This paper examines the effect of disclosure regulation on the takeover market. We study the implementation of a recent European regulation that imposes tighter disclosure requirements regarding the financial and ownership information on public firms. We find a substantial drop in the number of control acquisitions after the implementation of the regulation, a decrease that is concentrated in countries with more dynamic takeover markets. Consistent with the idea that the disclosure requirements increased acquisition costs, we also observe that, under the new disclosure regime, target (acquirer) stock returns around the acquisition announcement are higher (lower), and toeholds are substantially smaller. Overall, our evidence suggests that tighter disclosure requirements can impose significant acquisition costs on bidders and thus slow down takeover activity.     

上市并购目标公司的特征研究

运用ANOVA和Logit回归方法探求我国并购目标公司区别于非目标公司的财务特征,并对几种具有代表性的并购动机做出检验。结果表明,替换无效率的管理层理论和交易成本理论对并购上市公司的动机具有较强解释力,与此同时还有部分并购出于投机动机。     

Volatility Implied by Option Prices: The Case of Takeover Bids

We model the effect of an impending share price jump on the implied standard deviation (ISD) of a company's options, testing the model by investigating its predictive ability for ISDs of companies subject to a takeover bid. Our model fits the observed ISDs well for all but certain deep in-the-money options. However, the model demonstrates that a discontinuity in the relationship between moneyness and the ISD both explains the combination of high and zero ISDs exhibited by these options, and impairs the predictive power of the model at these levels of moneyness.