Post-Acquisition Performance of Private Acquirers

Post-Acquisition Performance of Private Acquirers

Andrey Golubov, Nan Xiong

Series number :

Serial Number: 
482/2016

Date posted :

September 06 2016

Last revised :

December 04 2019
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Keywords

  • Private Firms • 
  • mergers and acquisitions • 
  • operating performance improvements • 
  • agency conflicts

We provide the first evidence on the performance of private operating firms as acquirers. Private bidders experience greater post-acquisition operating per- formance improvements compared to public bidders.

This effect is not due to differences in target types, merger accounting, financing constraints, private equity ownership or subsequent listing of some private bidders, and is robust to instrumentation. Further analysis of governance arrangements at least partially attributes the private bidder effect to lower agency costs in private firms. Not only do private firms pay lower prices for target firm assets, they also operate them more efficiently by containing overhead costs and capital expenditures.

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Authors

Professor
Real name:
Andrey Golubov
(University of Toronto)
Professor
Real name:
Nan Xiong
SAIF, Shanghai Jiao Tong University