• DocumentCode
    2968113
  • Title

    Bidding Strategy in Takeover

  • Author

    Ping Jiang

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Int. Trade & Econ., Univ. of Int. Bus. & Econ., Beijing, China
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    12-14 Aug. 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    The paper models the toehold acquisition and bid price decision problem faced by bidders in takeovers. The model builds upon the model of takeover proposed by Grossman and Hart (1980) and its later extensions by Shleifer and Vishny (1986) , Hirshleifer and Titman (1990) and Chowdhry and Jegadeesh (1994). By allowing the firm value to decrease after a failed tender offer, I find that the bidder with greater improvement of target firm value will overbid while low value enhancing bidder will not. In this sense, I provide an explanation for the overbidding behavior in takeover of only one bidder.
  • Keywords
    commerce; corporate acquisitions; bid price decision problem; bidding strategy; takeover; toehold acquisition; Biological system modeling; Business; Economics; Finance; Games; Resistance; Resists;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Management and Service Science (MASS), 2011 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Wuhan
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6579-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICMSS.2011.5998440
  • Filename
    5998440