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Cost Inefficiency, Size of Firms and Takeovers

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  • Trimbath, Susanne
  • Frydman, Halina
  • Frydman, Roman

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This study, using the Cox proportional hazards model, finds that the risk of takeover rises with cost inefficiency. It also finds that a firm faces a significantly higher risk of takeover if its cost performance lags behind its industry benchmark. Moreover, these findings appear to be remarkably stable over the nearly two decades spanned by the sample. The effect of the variables used to measure the risk-size relationship, however, indicates temporal changes. Lastly, the study presents evidence from fixed-effects models of ex post cost efficiency improvements that support the hypothesis that takeover targets are selected based on the potential for improvement. Copyright 2001 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

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  • Trimbath, Susanne & Frydman, Halina & Frydman, Roman, 2001. "Cost Inefficiency, Size of Firms and Takeovers," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Springer, vol. 17(4), pages 397-420, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:rqfnac:v:17:y:2001:i:4:p:397-420
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    1. Agnes Cheng, C.S. & He Huang, Henry & Li, Yinghua & Lobo, Gerald, 2010. "Institutional monitoring through shareholder litigation," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 95(3), pages 356-383, March.
    2. Rupendra Paliwal, 2010. "Intra Industry Effects Of Takeovers: A Study Of The Operating Performance Of Rival Firms," The International Journal of Business and Finance Research, The Institute for Business and Finance Research, vol. 4(2), pages 97-115.
    3. Yuan Gao & Derek Oler, 2012. "Rumors and pre-announcement trading: why sell target stocks before acquisition announcements?," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Springer, vol. 39(4), pages 485-508, November.
    4. Fatma Cebenoyan & A. Sinan Cebenoyan & Elizabeth S. Cooperman, 2003. "Regulatory Regimes and Takeovers of U.S. Thrifts," Economics Working Paper Archive at Hunter College 303, Hunter College Department of Economics.
    5. Fatma Cebenoyan & A. Sinan Cebenoyan & Elizabeth S. Cooperman, 2005. "Managerial Cost Inefficiency and Takeovers of U.S. Thrifts," Multinational Finance Journal, Multinational Finance Journal, vol. 9(1-2), pages 23-42, March-Jun.
    6. Mehrez Ben Slama & Dhafer Saidane & Hassouna Fedhila, 2012. "How to identify targets in the M&A banking operations? Case of cross-border strategies in Europe by line of activity," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Springer, vol. 38(2), pages 209-240, February.
    7. Halpern, Paul & Kieschnick, Robert & Rotenberg, Wendy, 2005. "Managerial shareholdings, firm value, and acquired corporations," The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 45(4-5), pages 781-795, September.

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