• Are stock-financed takeovers opportunistic? 

      Eckbo, B. Espen; Makaew, Tanakorn; Thorburn, Karin S. (Working paper;2013:4, Working paper, 2013)
      We find that the probability of all-stock financed takeovers increases with measures of bidder overvaluation. However, when we instrument the bidder's pricing error using aggregate mutual fund flows, the reverse happens: ...
    • Corporate restructuring 

      Thorburn, Karin S.; Eckbo, B. Espen (Working paper;2013:3, Working paper, 2013)
      We survey the empirical literature on corporate nancial restructuring, including breakup transactions (divestitures, spin-o s, equity carveouts, tracking stocks), leveraged recapitalizations, and leveraged buyouts (LBOs). ...