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Corporate Takeovers: The Efficiency Arguments

1988; American Economic Association; Volume: 2; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1257/jep.2.1.69

ISSN

1944-7965

Autores

F. M. Scherer,

Tópico(s)

Private Equity and Venture Capital

Resumo

In recent years, the tender offer takeover has been praised and damned with a ferocity suggesting that the survival of capitalism is at stake. The truth, as in most disputes with substantial metaphysical content, is more prosaic. Some takeovers enhance economic efficiency, some degrade it, and the balance of effects, though not fully known, is most likely a close one. In this essay I try to lay bare the debate's foundations and bring it back to earth with an injection of evidence.

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