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The short-run wealth effects of foreign divestitures by UK firms

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  • Jerry Coakley
  • Hardy Thomas
  • Han-Min Wang

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We analyse a unique sample of 165 foreign divestitures by UK firms 1986-1995. These divestitures lead to significantly positive shareholder wealth effects of 4.8% over the 10 days before and after the announcement date. They are several times larger than the corresponding wealth effects reported for US firms and are robust to a number of factors such as size, market-to-book ratio, GARCH effects, thin trading effects and cross-sectional dependence. The wealth gains are associated with an increase in geographical focus towards Anglo-Saxon corporate governance regimes rather than simply in industrial focus as in the case of domestic divestitures. They are also related to poor pre-divestiture stock performance which is consistent with the financing explanation to combat agency and financial distress problems.

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  • Jerry Coakley & Hardy Thomas & Han-Min Wang, 2007. "The short-run wealth effects of foreign divestitures by UK firms," Applied Financial Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 18(3), pages 173-184.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apfiec:v:18:y:2007:i:3:p:173-184
    DOI: 10.1080/09603100601018831
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