Overseas mergers and acquisitions: Political affiliation and equitable nature based on Belt and Road Initiative
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摘要: 以“一带一路”倡议为研究视角,选择2009年至2017年中国上市公司的海外并购作为研究样本,探究其权力的性质、政治联系及其对海外并购的影响. 研究表明,政治并没有加强企业“一带一路”倡议的并购意愿,但会影响并购交易的规模. 国有股的性质对收购意愿和并购规模没有重大影响. “一带一路”沿线的海外并购中,政治关联企业的海外并购规模大于非政治关联企业的海外并购规模,政治联系的深度和广度与并购规模呈正相关. 中国企业可以通过“一带一路”倡议的实施来促进海外并购,同时注重企业自身的经济利益,实现国家、市场和企业的多赢.
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Tab. 1 Descriptive statistics of variables
Variable name Variable symbol #samples Average Stnd. Deviation Minimum Maximum “Belt and Road” BR 347 0.1354 0.3427 0 1 Political Connection Political 347 0.8329 0.3736 0 1 Political connection breadth Polwidth 347 0.1551 0.1242 0 0.5 Political relevance depth Poldepth 347 1.6455 2.2446 0 2 Nature of the company State 347 0.3333 0.4721 0 1 M&A asset size Firmsize 347 22.6924 1.6998 20.0696 28.1356 Cash flow OCF 347 0.0532 0.0747 –0.2148 0.2758 Asset-liability ratio leverage Lever 347 0.4429 0.2024 0.0203 0.8768 Return on equity ROE 347 0.1047 0.0896 –0.1603 0.3394 Income growth rate Growh 347 0.2509 0.5827 –0.6085 3.6403 M&A transaction size MAsize 347 0.0660 0.2328 0.0001 1.7059 Transaction payment method Paymethod 347 0.9510 0.2162 0 1 Inter-bank acquisition Horizontal 347 0.4640 0.4994 0 1 Tab. 2 Logit regression analysis of overseas mergers and acquisitions
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Political 0.1448(0.774) –0.1731(0.912) 0.0645(0.901) Polwidth 0.0596(0.810) Poldepth 0.1501(0.737) State×Political –0.0971(0.825) –0.0591(0.895) –0.0955(0.829) State Firmsize 0.0856(0.455) 0.0970(0.446) 0.1018(0.433) 0.0974(0.444) 0.0642(0.612) OCF –0.5310(0.840) –0.5051(0.850) –0.5544(0.835) –0.4960(0.853) –0.6634(0.803) Leverage 1.4619(0.142) 1.4881(0.138) 1.4564(0.149) 1.4853(0.139) 1.4231(0.158) ROE –1.4210(0.518) –1.6487(0.469) –1.5897(0.485) –1.6435(0.471) –1.2556(0.578) Growth 0.3918(0.110) 0.3907(0.112) 0.3878(0.116) 0.3926(0.111) 0.3863(0.115) MAsize 4.1701(0.000) 4.1502(0.000) 4.1878(0.000) 4.1536(0.000) 4.1244(0.000) Aymethod 0.3924(0.635) 0.3424(0.686) 0.4143(0.622) 0.3521(0.677) 0.3449(0.684) Horizontal 0.2937(0.414) 0.3155(0.385) 0.3217(0.377) 0.3178(0.382) 0.2780(0.442) Constant term –5.3198(0.042) –5.6137(0.048) –5.6494(0.050) –5.6099(0.048) –4.8726(0.091) Number of samples 347 347 347 347 347 PseudoR2 0.1492 0.1499 0.1497 0.1499 0.1498 Note: Represent significant levels at 10%, 5%, and 1%, respectively; the values in parentheses are regression p-values (The following tables are the same) Tab. 3 Multiple regression analysis of the scale of M&A transactions
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) BR 0.2217 0.2227 0.2216 0.0684 0.1369 0.0527 (0.000) (0.000) (0.000) (0.408) (0.005) (0.509) 0.0656 Political (0.024) 0.2249 Polwidth (0.016) 0.0336 Poldepth (0.019) 0.1835 (0.033) 0.5494 BR×Polwidth (0.016) 0.1011 BR×Poldepth (0.019) State –0.0011 –0.0071 –0.0030 –0.0038 –0.0014 –0.0024 (0.967) (0.799) (0.911) (0.888) (0.957) (0.927) –0.0254 –0.0281 –0.0253 –0.0255 –0.0239 –0.0256 Firmsize (0.002) (0.001) (0.002) (0.002) (0.003) (0.002) OCF 0.2355 0.2294 0.2454 0.2706 0.2441 0.2769 (0.165) (0.175) (0.148) (0.114) (0.150) (0.105) –0.0236 –0.0162 –0.0232 –0.0202 –0.0279 –0.0194 Leverage (0.699) (0.791) (0.703) (0.739) (0.647) (0.751) –0.1583 –0.1697 –0.1615 –0.1675 –0.1730 –0.1663 ROE (0.272) (0.240) (0.263) (0.229) (0.231) (0.249) –0.0245 –0.0222 –0.0236 –0.0268 –0.0247 –0.0268 Growh (0.189) (0.235) (0.208) (0.151) (0.185) (0.152) –0.4100 –0.4061 –0.4098 –0.3860 –0.3926 –0.3839 Paymethod (0.000) (0.000) (0.000) (0.000) (0.000) (0.000) –0.0008 –0.0005 –0.0005 –0.0026 –0.0031 0.0026 Horizontal (0.968) (0.981) (0.981) (0.900) (0.884) (0.902) Constant term 0.9700 1.0466 0.9661 0.9844 0.9782 1.0012 (0.000) (0.000) (0.000) (0.000) (0.000) (0.000) Number of samples 347 347 347 347 347 347 Pseudo R2 0.3174 0.3189 0.3379 0.3354 0.3385 0.3380 -
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