The Intangibles Song in Takeover Announcements: Good Tempo, Hollow Tune

Zoran Filipovic and Alexander Wagner
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Zoran Filipovic: DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Mergers and acquisitions are often motivated by the intention of creating value from intangible assets. We develop a novel word list of intangibles and apply it to takeover announcements. The value of these deals to the acquirer, as shown by abnormal announcement returns, is questionable: One standard deviation more in intangibles talk lowers returns by 0.50 percentage points. Agency problems explain little of these results. Rather, the cross-section of announcement returns, payment mode choices, and insider trades suggest that intangibles talk reflects managerial overoptimism. In sum, takeover announcements reveal important information regarding the quality of deals.

Keywords: Corporate announcements; intangible assets; intangibles talk; mergers and acquisitions; takeovers; textual analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-09
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Published in WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management Research Seminars, Sep 2022, Vallendar, Germany

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