Institutional cross-holdings and their effect on acquisition decisions

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Institutional Cross-Ownership and Corporate Strategy: The Case of Mergers and Acquisitions (2018, unknown): “Additionally, a single institutional crossowner may not act differently from other institutional non cross-owners because its holdings of acquirer and target stocks may be asymmetric (Harford et al., 2011).”
The Effect of Cultural Similarity on Mergers and Acquisitions: Evidence from Corporate Social Responsibility (2018, unknown): “Specifically, acquiring firms are substantially larger than target firms, have higher sales growth and profitability (return on assets: ROA), higher valuation multiples, and exhibit lower R&D intensity than target firms (e.g., Harford, Jenter, and Li, 2011; Bena and Li, 2014).”
Common ownership and competition in product markets (2021, unknown): “Therefore, to more directly address the causal nature of the proposed relation, we follow He and Huang (2017), Azar et al.”
Investor Horizons and Corporate Policies (2013, unknown): “For the index, we use the CRSP value-weighted index.13 We classify investors with an active share of up to 0.25 as “indexers” (cf. Harford, Jenter, and Li (2011), who use a cutoff of 0.30), and we classify all other investors as “nonindexers.””