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Financial vs. Strategic Buyers / Marc Martos-Vila, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Jarrad Harford.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martos-Vila, Marc.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w19378.
- NBER working paper series no. w19378
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2013.
- Summary:
- This paper introduces the impact of debt misvaluation on merger and acquisition activity. Debt misvaluation helps explain the shifting dominance of financial acquirers (private equity firms) relative to strategic acquirers (operating companies). The effects of overvalued debt might seem limited since both acquirer types and target firms can access the debt markets. However, fundamental differences in governance and project co-insurance between the two types of acquirer interact with debt misvaluation, resulting in variation in how assets are owned that depends on debt market conditions. We find support for our theory in merger data using a novel measure of debt misvaluation.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- August 2013.
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