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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 Wang
How 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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Publication status

  • Published

Journal

International Business Review

ISSN

0969-5931

Publisher

Elsevier

Issue

4

Volume

23

Page range

811-823

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  • Business and Management Publications

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2015-12-04

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