Merger arbitrage and the interaction between target and bidder stocks during takeover bids [An article from: Research in International Business and Finance]

by E. Hutson, C. Kearney

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We use bivariate ARCH specifications to model the conditional mean and stock price volatility for 56 takeover bids from January 1985 and July 1994. Using daily data from one year prior to the takeover announcement until the conclusion of the bid, we allow for two-way interaction in both moments between the bidding and the target companies. We find a significant departure from relation to the market for target stocks after a takeover announcement, but not for bidders. These results have implications for merger arbitrage, and we suggest a technique for controlling for differential betas in the merger arbitrage portfolio. Interaction between bidder and target stocks is strong for stock-swap and mixed cases, where the bid price is transferred from bidder to target. But we also find some interaction in cash bids, and from target to bidder in stock-swap takeovers. We argue that this can be explained by both bidder and target reflecting the likelihood of success of the takeover offer.

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