If at First You Don't Succeed: The Effect of the Option to Resolicit on Corporate Takeovers

Posted: 29 Feb 2008

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Ann B. Gillette

Kennesaw State University - Michael J. Coles College of Business; Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Thomas H. Noe

University of Oxford - Said Business School; University of Oxford - Balliol College; Bank of Finland; European Corporate Governance Institute

Date Written: 2006

Abstract

This article models, and experimentally simulates, the free-rider problem in a takeover when the raider has the option to "resolicit," that is, to make a new offer after an offer has been rejected. In theory, the option to resolicit, by lowering offer credibility, increases the dissipative losses associated with free riding. The outcomes of our experiment support this prediction and produce losses from free riding even higher than theoretically predicted. These dissipation losses reduce raider gains to less than 3% of synergy value of the acquisition

Suggested Citation

Gillette, Ann Brewer and Noe, Thomas H., If at First You Don't Succeed: The Effect of the Option to Resolicit on Corporate Takeovers ( 2006). The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 19, Issue 2, pp. 561-603, 2006, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=900716 or http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/rfs/hhj011

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