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In: Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), Forthcoming
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments April 9, 2018 erstellt
Description:
Academic literature, practitioners, courts, and regulators routinely assert that both private and subsidiary targets sell at discounts relative to public targets. However, the empirical evidence to support this conclusion is thin. Our work alters the methodology from prior research to avoid biases due to both one-sided sample truncation and Jensen's inequality. Following these changes, we find no evidence that unlisted targets sell at discounts. Our results hold under a number of different approaches and after controlling for known determinants of acquisition pricing