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Managerial Incentives and Corporate Investment and Financing Decisions
Published: 09/01/1987 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1987.tb03914.x
ANUP AGRAWAL, GERSHON N. MANDELKER
This paper examines the relationship between common stock and option holdings of managers and the choice of investment and financing decisions by firms. The authors find support for the hypothesis of a positive relationship between the security holdings of managers and the changes in firm variance and in financial leverage. This conclusion is based on samples of acquiring and divesting firms. The findings are consistent with the hypothesis that executive security holdings have a role in reducing agency problems.
The Post‐Merger Performance of Acquiring Firms: A Re‐examination of an Anomaly
Published: 09/01/1992 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1992.tb04674.x
ANUP AGRAWAL, JEFFREY F. JAFFE, GERSHON N. MANDELKER
The existing literature on the post‐merger performance of acquiring firms is divided. We re‐examine this issue, using a nearly exhaustive sample of mergers between NYSE acquirers and NYSE/AMEX targets. We find that stockholders of acquiring firms suffer a statistically significant loss of about 10% over the five‐year post‐merger period, a result robust to various specifications. Our evidence suggests that neither the firm size effect nor beta estimation problems are the cause of the negative post‐merger returns. We examine whether this result is caused by a slow adjustment of the market to the merger event. Our results do not seem consistent with this hypothesis.