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International investors’ reactions to cross-border acquisitions by emerging market multinationals
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posted on 2023-06-08, 23:38 authored by Lutao Ning, Jing-Ming Kuo, Roger StrangeRoger Strange, Boya WangHow do international investors react to announcements of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (CM&As) by emerging market multinational enterprises (EMNEs)? Using a unique and manually-constructed firm-level dataset, this paper examines the stock price reactions to CM&A announcements made over the period 1991–2010 by Chinese MNEs listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and the wealth impacts of their corporate governance. Our empirical findings confirm a positive stock price reaction on average, and suggest that international investors react positively to the presence of large shareholders, but negatively to the presence of institutional shareholders. There is a negative impact if the largest shareholder is either the State or the corporate founder. We suggest that this is because the international investors perceive potential principal–principal conflicts in such ownership/control constellations and discount equity prices accordingly. We also find that Board size and independence have positive effects on the price reaction, but that large supervisory boards engender negative reactions.
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International Business ReviewISSN
0969-5931Publisher
ElsevierExternal DOI
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4Volume
23Page range
811-823Department affiliated with
- Business and Management Publications
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2015-12-04Usage metrics
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