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. Deals presented with more "intangibles talk" complete more quickly. However, the value of these deals to the acquirer is questionable: One standard deviation more in intangibles talk results in 0.45 percentage points lower abnormal announcement returns of bidders. Agency problems explain little of these results. Instead, payment mode choices and insider trades suggest that intangibles talk reflects managerial overoptimism. Overall,takeover announcements can provide important information regarding the quality of deals.

Keywords: Corporate announcements; intangible assets; intangibles talk; mergers and acquisitions; textual analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-01
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Published in Ludwig Maximilian University Accounting Research Workshop, Jan 2021, Munich / Online, Germany

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