Market dynamics of buyout acquisitions in the renewable energy and cleantech sectors: An event study approach

Samuel Palmquist and Mikael Bask

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2016, vol. 64, issue C, 271-278

Abstract: This paper examined the market dynamics of mergers and acquisitions in the renewable energy and cleantech sectors. We analyzed abnormal returns from 273 announced and 54 completed buyout acquisitions that took place between the years 1997 and 2014, and we used an event study methodology to test (i) whether renewable energy and cleantech deals experienced higher rates of abnormal returns than traditional energy and mining deals, (ii) whether deal completions displayed similar effects as deal announcements, and (iii) whether homogenous deals experienced higher rates of abnormal returns than heterogeneous deals. Our findings were (i) that the traditional energy and mining sector outperformed the renewable energy and cleantech sectors in homogenous deals, (ii) that the deal completion effect followed the announcement effect in 9 of 12 cases, and (iii) that homogenous deals outperformed heterogeneous deals. To the best of our knowledge, comparisons of deal announcements and deal completion effects in the renewable energy and cleantech sectors have not to date been previously examined in the literature.

Keywords: Abnormal returns; Business strategy; Buyout acquisition; Cleantech; Event study (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2016.06.011

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