This paper presents a model of corporate takeovers in a framework of auctions with multidimensional signals. The model considers a target firm whose value for each bidder is composed of both common and private values. A key novel feature of our model is that bidders privately observe a noisy signal that is positively but imperfectly correlated with the common value. Absent a noisy signal, which is true in most extant studies of common value auctions, bidders would be informed of a common value factor that is independent of each other. A symmetric equilibrium is developed where inefficient takeovers may take place because information regarding common value cannot be aggregated. Furthermore, we show that there is a non-monotonic relationship between the probability of inefficient takeovers and the precision of information.
목차
Abstract 1. INTRODUCTION 2 THE BASIC MODEL 2.1 The Market for Corporate Control 2.2 Information Structure 2.3 The bidding process and the sequence of events 3. BENCHMARK: THE PURE COMMON VALUE AUCTION 3.1 The common value 3.2 Bidding strategies and a symmetric equilibrium 4. MULTIDIMENSIONAL SIGNALS AND INEFFICIENT CORPORATE TAKEOVERS 4.1 Inefficient takeovers 4.2 Information precision and the probability of inefficient takeovers 5. CONCLUSION Appendix REFERENCES
키워드
common value auctionmultidimensional signalstakeover contestsinefficient allocationcorporate takeovers
저자
Jeongsun Yun [ Assistant Professor, College of Business Administration, Kookmin University ]