Journal of Economic Perspectives
ISSN 0895-3309 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7965 (Online)
Corporate Takeovers: The Efficiency Arguments
Journal of Economic Perspectives
(pp. 69–82)
(Complimentary)
Abstract
In recent years, the tender offer takeover has been praised and damned with a ferocity suggesting that the survival of capitalism is at stake. The truth, as in most disputes with substantial metaphysical content, is more prosaic. Some takeovers enhance economic efficiency, some degrade it, and the balance of effects, though not fully known, is most likely a close one. In this essay I try to lay bare the debate's foundations and bring it back to earth with an injection of evidence.Citation
Scherer, F M. 1988. "Corporate Takeovers: The Efficiency Arguments." Journal of Economic Perspectives 2 (1): 69–82. DOI: 10.1257/jep.2.1.69JEL Classification
- G14 Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies; Insider Trading
- G32 Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
- G34 Mergers; Acquisitions; Restructuring; Voting; Proxy Contests; Corporate Governance
- G38 Corporate Finance and Governance: Government Policy and Regulation
- K22 Business and Securities Law
- L22 Firm Organization and Market Structure