On the relation between the relative size of acquisitions and the wealth of acquiring firms

Ivo Ph. Jansen, Lee W. Sanning and Nathan V. Stuart

Applied Economics Letters, 2013, vol. 20, issue 6, 534-539

Abstract: There are dozens of studies in the mergers and acquisitions literature that include the relative size of an acquisition as an additive control variable in models explaining acquisition wealth effects. A majority of these studies document a positive coefficient estimate on relative size, but many document a negative coefficient estimate instead. Our study demonstrates that these seemingly contradictory findings stem from a misspecification of the functional form of the relation between Cumulative Abnormal Returns ( CAR ) and relative size.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2012.718056

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