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En finance, une offre publique est une opération lancée par une société, un groupe financier ou une autre institution privée, sous forme d'une proposition faite au public de lui acheter, échanger ou vendre un certain nombre de titres d'une société, dans le cadre de procédures précises, réglementées et contrôlées par les autorités de bourse, notamment en ce qui concerne les informations financières à fournir au public (en France par l'AMF ou aux États-Unis par la SEC). Les offres publiques peuvent être de plusieurs types : offre publique d'achat (OPA) pour un paiement en numéraire, offre publique d'échange (OPE) pour un paiement en titres, offre publique mixte pour un paiement en numéraire et en titres, offre publique alternative pour un paiement en numéraire ou en titres. Dans certaines situations, un actionnaire de contrôle peut être tenu de déposer une offre publique de retrait (OPR) afin d'offrir aux actionnaires la possibilité de céder leur titre à un prix équitable. Enfin, en Fr

Essays in Financial Economics

Marc André Frattaroli

This thesis consists of three chapters that study separate subjects in the area of corporate governance and financial intermediation. In the first chapter, I study a protectionist anti-takeover law introduced in 2014 in France that covers a subset of all firms in the economy. The law decreased affected firms' likelihood of becoming the target of a merger or acquisition and had a negative impact on shareholder value. There is no evidence that management of those firms subsequently altered firm policies in its interest. Investment, employment, wages, profitability, and capital structure remain unchanged. The share of annual CEO compensation consisting of equity instruments increased by 8.4 percentage points, suggesting that boards reacted to the loss in monitoring by the takeover market by increasing the pay-for-performance sensitivity. In the second chapter, which is co-authored work with Rüdiger Fahlenbrach, we conduct a detailed analysis of investors in successful initial coin offerings (ICOs). The average ICO has 4,700 contributors. The median participant contributes small amounts and many investors sell their tokens before the underlying product is developed. Large presale investors obtain tokens at a discount and flip part of their allocation shortly after the ICO. ICO contributors lack the protections traditionally afforded to investors in early stage financing. Nevertheless, returns nine months after the ICO are positive on average, driven mostly by an increase in the value of the Ethereum cryptocurrency. In the third chapter, which is joint work with Christoph Herpfer, we investigate how bankers use information from lending relationships to help borrowers combine resources in strategic alliances. Firms that have borrowed from the same banker or share an indirect connection through a network of bankers are significantly more likely to enter an alliance. Consistent with bankers overcoming informational frictions, their ability to facilitate alliances decreases with network distance, and is stronger for opaque borrowers. Firms connected to more potential partners via banker networks enter more alliances. These alliances are associated with positive announcement returns and brokering banks are more likely to receive future underwriting mandates.

EPFL2020

The dynamics of mergers and acquisitions

Erwan Morellec

This paper presents a dynamic model of takeovers based on the stock market valuations of merging firms. The model incorporates competition and imperfect information and determines the terms and timing of takeovers by solving option exercise games between bidding and target shareholders. The implications of the model for returns to stockholders are consistent with the available evidence. In addition, the model generates new predictions relating these returns to the drift, volatility and correlation coefficient of the bidder and the target stock returns and to the dispersion of beliefs regarding the benefits of the takeover.

2005

Essays in Financial Economics

Marc André Frattaroli

EPFL2020