Product Market Synergies and Competition in Mergers and Acquisitions: A Text-Based Analysis
通过分析公司年报中产品描述的文本相似度，发现并购双方产品语言越相似，交易后股票回报、现金流和产品增长越好，尤其在竞争激烈的市场中，且当目标公司产品独特时收益更大。
We use text-based analysis of 10-K product descriptions to examine whether firms exploit product market synergies through asset complementarities in mergers and acquisitions. Transactions are more likely between firms that use similar product market language. Transaction stock returns, ex post cash flows, and growth in product descriptions all increase for transactions with similar product market language, especially in competitive product markets. These gains are larger when targets are less similar to acquirer rivals and when targets have unique products. Our findings are consistent with firms merging and buying assets to exploit synergies to create new products that increase product differentiation. The Author 2010. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Society for Financial Studies. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org., Oxford University Press.