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The Information Content of Corporate Investment Announcements: The Case of Joint Ventures

Research in Finance

ISBN: 978-0-76231-277-1, eISBN: 978-1-84950-391-4

Publication date: 1 January 2005

Abstract

Partner firms to the same joint venture experience sharply different stock price reactions. These differences cannot be explained by mechanical factors related to differences in firm size and ownership share in the project, nor are they attributable to different partner roles in the project or differences in investor anticipation of the announcement. We conclude that the stock price reactions reflect a revaluation of non-project assets that is different for each partner. Additionally, we find evidence indicating that investors infer information about agency problems (in the sense of Jensen, 1986) from the joint venture announcements and subsequently, revalue the whole firm – not just the marginal project being announced. Finally, we find that free cash flow is value-enhancing for one type of partner firm after we control for the extent of agency problems.

Citation

Keown, A.J., Laux, P. and Martin, J.D. (2005), "The Information Content of Corporate Investment Announcements: The Case of Joint Ventures", Chen, A.H. (Ed.) Research in Finance (Research in Finance, Vol. 22), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 33-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0196-3821(05)22002-6

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