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Title: Cross-border Acquisitions and Restructuring: Multinational Enterprises and Private Equity-Firms

Author(s): Lars Persson

Publication Date: April 2017

Keyword(s): Cross-border acquisitions, institutions, M&As, private equity and Trade

Programme Area(s): Industrial Organization

Abstract: An increasingly large share of cross-border acquisitions are undertaken by private equity-firms (PE-firms) and not by traditional multinational enterprises (MNEs). We propose a model of cross-border acquisitions in which MNEs and PE-firms compete over domestic assets and which incorporates endogenous financial frictions. MNEs' advantages lie in firm-specific synergies and access to internal capital markets, whereas PE-firms are good at reorganizing target firms. We show that stronger firm-specific synergies, lower restructuring advantages for PE-firms, higher exit costs for PE-firms, better access to internal capital markets, a higher risk premium on lending, higher moral hazard problems, and higher trade costs all favor MNEs over PE-firms. We also present cross-country correlations that are consistent with these predictions.

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Persson, L. 2017. 'Cross-border Acquisitions and Restructuring: Multinational Enterprises and Private Equity-Firms'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=11953