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Fotis Grigoris – Kelley (Indiana) – Brown Bag Series
Darden, FOB 294Inflation and the Relative Price Premium Abstract This study shows that relative price dispersion impacts risk premia. Notably, firms associated with goods and services that have increased (decreased) in price relative to the headline inflation rate earn high (low) returns. We refer to this return spread of 0.71% per month Read more…
Ludovic Phalippou – Saïd (Oxford)
Darden, FOB 194Employee Views of Leveraged Buy-Out Transactions ABSTRACT Employee satisfaction decreases following a company acquisition. This effect is, generally, higher when it is through a Leveraged Buy-Out (LBO), but with considerable heterogeneity: the decrease in employee satisfaction is concentrated in Tech LBOs and in Public-to-Private (PU2PE) transactions. After any M&A transaction, Read more…
Marina Niessner – Wharton
Darden, Classroom 130Can Social Media Inform Corporate Decisions? Evidence from Merger Withdrawals