Do Target-Country Legal Institutions Affect Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions?: A Quantitative Literature Survey

Josef Brada and Ichiro Iwasaki

No 2022-04, CEI Working Paper Series from Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University

Abstract: We undertake a meta-analysis of 1296 estimates of the effect of target country legal environments on cross-border mergers and acquisitions (CBMAs) compiled from 60 published studies. Although these studies provide effect estimates that are statistically significant, none of the legal variables considered, save civil law, has an effect on either CBMA intensity or the CBMA premium that is large enough to be meaningful. Thus, the studies fail to provide support for legal origins theory or for theories based on cultural distance as explanations for CBMA activity. Studies of the CBMA premium are plagued by inadequate statistical power, by unexplained interstudy differences in effect and by publication-selection bias. Based on our meta-analysis, we suggest reasons why the empirical evidence fails to support theories that have wide acceptance.

Keywords: foreign direct investment; mergers and acquisitions; legal environment; meta-analysis; capital flows (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F21 F23 G32 G34 K22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 56 pages
Date: 2022-09
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