Market risk exposure of merger arbitrage in Australia

We investigate the risk‐return characteristics of merger arbitrage in the Australian market for corporate control, whereby hedge fund managers acquire companies subject to a takeover offer. On average, a strategy of buying target companies and short‐selling bidders making scrip offers would have generated an annual return of 30 per cent from 1985 to 2008, excluding transaction costs, compared to the return on the broader market of 12 per cent. However, performance is not market neutral, being positively associated with market returns during downturns and inversely related to market movements during rising markets. The payoffs to this strategy are analogous to a short straddle, whereby the investor is short a call and put option at the same exercise price. These results are consistent with large‐sample evidence from the United States and the United Kingdom and have not previously been documented in Australia, in which prior evidence is based only on cash deals during the 1990s.     

Learning, hubris and corporate serial acquisitions

Recent empirical research has shown that, from deal to deal, serial acquirers' cumulative abnormal returns (CAR) are declining. This has been most often attributed to CEOs hubris. We question this interpretation. Our theoretical analysis shows that (i) a declining CAR from deal to deal is not sufficient to reveal the presence of hubris, (ii) if CEOs are learning, economically motivated and rational, a declining CAR from deal to deal should be observed, (iii) predictions can be derived about the impact of learning and hubris on the time between successive deals and, finally, (iv) predictions about the CAR and about the time between successive deal trends lead to testable empirical hypotheses.     

民营银行并购国有银行的动机、成本与风险探析

当前,在世界范围内特别是在发展中国家,掀起了一股民营银行并购国有银行的浪潮。这种并购容易产生现金流风险、信息不对称风险、政策诱导性风险、管理效率风险、并购失败风险。民营银行应通过以下措施和方法将风险消除,从而实现并购成功：结合银行实际,选用适合自身发展的并购方式;努力消除信息不对称;优化决策程序;妥善处理好与政府的关系。     

Estimating the technical and scale efficiency of Greek commercial banks: The impact of credit risk, off-balance sheet activities, and international operations

This paper uses data envelopment analysis (DEA) to investigate the efficiency of the Greek commercial banking industry over the period 2000–2004. Our results indicate that the inclusion of loan loss provisions as an input increases the efficiency scores, but off-balance sheet items do not have a significant impact. The differences between the efficiency scores obtained through the profit-oriented and the intermediation approaches are in general small. Banks that have expanded their operations abroad appear to be more technical efficient than those operating only at a national level. Higher capitalization, loan activity, and market power increase the efficiency of banks. The number of branches has a positive and significant impact on efficiency, but the number of ATMs does not. The results are mixed with respect to variables indicating whether the banks are operating abroad through subsidiaries or branches.     

区域性银行盈利能力的实证分析

本文根据国家银行业监管相关准则和国内银行体系的实际情况,界定了区域性银行的概念,从区域性银行发展实践中总结出重组、扩张和本地化三种战略,建立了三项研究假设,并针对假设选择了13家区域性银行,运用数据包络分析(DEA)方法对它们的盈利能力进行数据分析,分析结果基本支持研究假设,在此基础上提出区域性银行的战略选择建议。     

企业并购理论综述

对于企业并购的研究,现有文献主要集中在三个方面:一是从企业个体角度和宏观角度来研究企业并购动因;二是运用博弈论模型以及运用实物期权模型来分析企业并购过程,对企业并购的研究最新进展主要体现在这个研究领域;三是运用事件研究法和会计指标研究法来研究并购绩效。国有大股东和管理者在并购过程中所起的作用,以及在实物期权和博弈论的框架下研究新一轮战略并购浪潮,构成未来的研究方向。     

村镇银行社会网络资本作用的实证研究

社会网络资本影响网络主体的经营绩效。本文尝试对村镇银行社会网络资本对于其经营绩效的作用进行实证,通过村镇银行经营管理人员的社会网络资本作为替代变量来测度村镇银行的社会网络资本,用信贷额增长率、利润额增长率、当地市场份额增长率三个问题来衡量村镇银行经营绩效。结果表明村镇银行经营管理人员的社会网络资本对其经营绩效正面影响不显著,但可以通过提高村镇银行市场和非市场发展能力来提高其经营绩效。     

对我国企业跨境并购重组税收政策的一些看法

目前,我国大规模的企业并购重组尤其是跨境并购重组不断发生。本文分析了当前我国有关企业跨境并购重组税收政策方面存在的问题,并借鉴国外做法,立足我国实际情况,提出进一步完善税收政策和加强税收征管的建议。     

The structure of urban governance in South African cities

This paper analyzes the economic factors that will determine the evolution of the structure of urban governance in South Africa's major metropolitan areas. The paper suggests that fiscal autonomy, distributional, and efficiency considerations have supported a move toward a two-tier metropolitan structure. Within this two-tier system, fiscal stability considerations favor a model of functional fragmentation and privatization of municipal services. Two factors that have influenced the choice of urban governance are spatial policies of the apartheid regime and the uncertainty in the allocation of fiscal transfers between different tiers of government.     

The long-run performance of acquiring firms in mergers and acquisitions: Does managerial ability matter?

This paper examines the association between the managerial ability of acquiring firms and their long-term performance after mergers and acquisitions (M&As). Based on M&A data for U.S. firms from 2000 to 2012, we find that acquiring firms with higher managerial ability achieve better long-term operating performance and stock returns. We also find that the positive effect of managerial ability on long-term performance is more pronounced when acquirers and target firms belong to the same industry. The result suggests that managers who have higher ability to manage their firms, i.e., to generate higher revenues for given resources, are more capable of achieving higher synergy benefits and better post-acquisition performance in same-industry acquisitions than in cross-industry acquisitions.     

Investment bank reputation and shareholder wealth effects in mergers and acquisitions

This paper investigates the relationship between the reputation of investment banks employed in mergers and acquisitions transactions and the resulting wealth effects. Two hypotheses are tested: the superior deal hypothesis, stating that high reputation advisors suggest deals with higher overall transaction gains; and the bargaining advantage hypothesis, stating that the larger share of transaction benefits is attributed to the party employing a highly reputed advisor. Evidence from 285 European M&A-transactions announced between 1997 and 2002 does not support any of these hypotheses. On average, wealth effects are not significantly different for transactions advised by different advisor tiers.     

整合经理在并购整合中的角色和职责

从并购频繁发生的西方国家的整合工作实践来看，一人新的管理职位－ 整合经理正在应运而生。目前，在欧美国家整合经理已成为整合工作的核心人物，在并购中发挥着举足重的作用。本将对整合经理的存在需要、角色定位、选拔标准、职责规划等问题进行分析，力图色勒出其在企业并购中的地位和活动情况，为我国企业并购活动提供一点可资借鉴的信息。