Abstract
We investigate the impact of sovereign wealth funds acquisitions (SWFs) on the performance of target firms' competitors. We find a positive and significant impact of SWFs acquisitions on target firms' competitors. This means that market participants anticipate value creation in the targets competitors, due to likely expected restructuring activities. Further analysis shows that relatively large rivals, low leveraged rivals, rivals with highly correlated returns with those of their corresponding targets, rivals in less competitive industries show higher abnormal returns upon the acquisition announcement. Our results question the rationality of protectionism as legal barriers to sovereign wealth funds cross-border investments.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 96-112 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Emerging Markets Review |
Volume | 30 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Mar 1 2017 |
Keywords
- Cumulative abnormal returns
- Intra industry effects
- Sovereign wealth funds
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Business and International Management
- Economics and Econometrics