Adverse Selection and M&A Design: The Roles of Alliances and Ipos

35 Pages Posted: 24 Aug 2005 Last revised: 8 Apr 2014

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Roberto Ragozzino

Nova School of Business and Economics

Jeffrey J. Reuer

Purdue University - Krannert School of Management

Date Written: April 1, 2006

Abstract

This paper investigates strategic alliances and initial public offerings (IPOs) as factors that potentially mitigate the risk of adverse selection in mergers and acquisitions. It is hypothesized that prior alliances between acquirers and targets as well as IPOs undertaken by targets reduce information asymmetries or lessen their effects by offering targets signaling opportunities. Using data on the types of consideration used in M&A transactions to reflect the allocation of overpayment risk across acquirers and targets, we find that targets' prior alliances with acquirers as well as targets' IPOs reduce the likelihood of using stock, or the amount of stock used, to finance acquisitions of these targets. We also present evidence that alliances and IPOs substitute for one another.

Keywords: Merger, acquisition, joint venture, IPO

JEL Classification: G3

Suggested Citation

Ragozzino, Roberto and Reuer, Jeffrey J., Adverse Selection and M&A Design: The Roles of Alliances and Ipos (April 1, 2006). Reuer, J. and Ragozzino, R. Adverse Selection in Acquisitions of New Ventures: The Roles of Alliances and IPOs in M&A Design. 2008. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol. 66: 195-212 , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=785912 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.785912

Roberto Ragozzino

Nova School of Business and Economics ( email )

Campus de Carcavelos
Rua da Holanda, 1
Carcavelos, 2775-405
Portugal

Jeffrey J. Reuer (Contact Author)

Purdue University - Krannert School of Management ( email )

1310 Krannert Building
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1310
United States

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