Footnote:
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments October 10, 2017 erstellt
Description:
We examine the wealth effects of economic nationalism on domestic and foreign rivals using a novel sample of government blocked EU cross-border takeover bids. Regressions show a significantly larger net contagion effect of 0.73% (€31m) on bid announcement for domestic rivals relative to foreign. Government intervention results in larger negative returns, which become even more negative at bid resolution, especially for domestic rivals. Domestic rivals lose significantly more (€23m) over the whole bid period, likely consistent with lower future takeover likelihood. We show that economic nationalism has a significant cost, which is not only confined to the EU blocking country