Bid Resistance by Takeover Targets: Managerial Bargaining or Bad Faith?

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Thomas W. Bates

Arizona State University - Department of Finance

David Becher

Drexel University

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Date Written: September 3, 2015

Abstract

This paper examines management’s motives for rejecting takeover bids and the associated shareholder wealth effects. We develop several measures of initial bid quality and find a significant negative correlation between contested offers and bid quality. The likelihood of higher follow-on offers decreases in bid quality and is greater when targets have classified boards and CEOs have significant personal wealth tied to the transaction. Moreover, CEOs who fail to close high quality offers experience a significant rate of forced turnover. Overall, the results support a price improvement motive for contested bids.

JEL Classification: G3, G34, J33

Suggested Citation

Bates, Thomas W. and Becher, David, Bid Resistance by Takeover Targets: Managerial Bargaining or Bad Faith? (September 3, 2015). Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), Forthcoming, AFA 2012 Chicago Meetings Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1786674 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1786674

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