Home Sweet Home: CEOs Acquiring Firms in Their Birth Countries

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Marra, Antonio; Pettinicchio, Angela; Shalev, Ron
• 署名单位: Bocconi University; Catholic University of the Sacred Heart; Bocconi University; University of Toronto
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING RESEARCH
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-8456
• DOI: 10.1111/1475-679X.12533
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 1363-1404
• 关键词: cross-border mergers; BIAS; determinants; INVESTMENT; EVOLUTION; VALUES

摘要

We find that foreign-born CEOs are more inclined than domestic-born ones to acquire across borders, and that this inclination is explained by their preference for targets in their birth country. This preference is motivated by foreign-born CEOs' information advantage in their birth country and by these CEOs' desire to give back to the birth country. CEOs' desire to help their birth country also influences target location, increasing the likelihood of a target in countries that colonized the CEO birth country. The motives that drive acquisitions in acquirer CEOs' birth countries measurably affect the returns of acquirers' shareholders, target premium, and acquisition synergy. Both acquirers' returns and synergy but not target premium are abnormally positive when the motive for an acquisition is a CEO's information advantage in the birth country. Targets premiums but not acquirers' returns and synergy are abnormally positive when the motive for an acquisition is the desire to give back to the CEO's birth country.