Bidder Incentives for Informed Trading Before Hostile Tender Offer Announcements

Devra Golbe () and Mary S. Schranz

Financial Management, 1994, vol. 23, issue 4

Abstract: Legal constraints that require disclosure of a bid before a controlling interest is purchased give bidders an incentive to tip arbitrageurs before announcement. Because arbitrageurs are likely to have lower private tendering costs than other shareholders, tipping decreases the minimum successful bid price, which increases profits to the bidder. The incentive to leak information is negatively related to the amount of dilution the bidder anticipates, the degree to which the back-end price embeds any pre-announcement price increase arising from additional trading by arbitrageurs, and the size of the bidder's toehold. It is positively related to the private tendering costs of the pivotal share.

Date: 1994
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fma:fmanag:golbe94

Access Statistics for this article

Financial Management is currently edited by Bill Christie

More articles in Financial Management from Financial Management Association University of South Florida 4202 E. Fowler Ave. COBA #3331 Tampa, FL 33620. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Courtney Connors ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).