Cost Inefficiency, Size of Firms and Takeovers

Stern Working Paper No. SOR 2001-4; Milken Institute Working Paper

46 Pages Posted: 2 Aug 2001

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Susanne Trimbath

STP Advisory Services, LLC; Creighton University, Department of Finance and Economics; Bellevue University - College of Business

Halina Frydman

New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences

Roman Frydman

New York University (NYU) - Department of Economics

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Abstract

This study, using the Cox proportional hazards model, finds that the risk of takeover rises with cost inefficiency. It also finds that a firm faces a significantly higher risk of takeover if its cost performance lags behind its industry benchmark. Moreover, these findings appear to be remarkably stable over the nearly two decades spanned by the sample. The effect of the variables used to measure the risk-size relationship, however, indicates temporal changes. Lastly, the study presents evidence from fixed-effects models of ex post cost efficiency improvements that support the hypothesis that takeover targets are selected based on the potential for improvement.

Keywords: Corporate finance and governance; Mergers; Acquisitions; Econometric methods; Models with panel data; Truncated and censored models; Cox Hazard Model

JEL Classification: G30, G34, C23, C24

Suggested Citation

Trimbath, Susanne and Frydman, Halina and Frydman, Roman, Cost Inefficiency, Size of Firms and Takeovers. Stern Working Paper No. SOR 2001-4; Milken Institute Working Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=278596 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.278596

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Halina Frydman

New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences ( email )

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Roman Frydman

New York University (NYU) - Department of Economics ( email )

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