Do Takeover Laws Matter? Evidence from Five Decades of Hostile Takeovers

By Matthew D. Cain, Stephen B. McKeon, S. D. Solomon. 2017

307 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Accounting, Strategy and Management

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/cc8f625ac6fbb1d179368132dd8849acf753fadf

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In Accounting

1. Todd A. Gormley
2. David A. Matsa
3. Erik P. Gilje
4. Adrien Matray
5. Caroline Flammer
6. Jennifer Brown
7. Sirui Yin
8. Xiaoran Ni

In Strategy and Management

1. David A. Matsa
2. Todd A. Gormley
3. Caroline Flammer

Citations in the corpus

• Economic Policy Uncertainty And Corporate Cash Holdings (2017, unknown): “Note that in Equation (9), we do not include HOSTILE independently in the presence of firm-fixed effects due to the “slow-moving” nature of this measure (Cain et al., 2017).”
• Playing It Safe? Managerial Preferences, Risk, and Agency Conflicts (2016, background): “Consistent with BC laws making hostile takeovers more difficult to execute, their passage is associated with a reduction in hostile takeovers (Cain, McKeon, and Solomon, 2014) and an increase in takeover premiums (Comment and Schwert, 1995).”