Markup Pricing in Mergers and Acquisitions

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  • G. William Schwert
  • William E. Simon
چکیده

This paper studies the relation between the premiums in takeover bids involving exchange-listed target firms from 1975-91 and the pre-announcement stock price runups. The evidence shows that the pre-bid runup and the postannouncement increase in the target’s stock price (the Amarkup@) are generally uncorrelated. With little substitution between the runup and the markup, the runup is an added cost to the bidder. This finding has important implications for assessing the costs of insider trading. It also raises interesting questions about the role of information from public capital markets in private takeover negotiations.

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تاریخ انتشار 1996