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- Publications
- Influence
Information Asymmetry, Corporate Disclosure and the Capital Markets: A Review of the Empirical Disclosure Literature
- Paul Healy, K. Palepu
- Business
- 1 September 2001
Corporate disclosure is critical for the functioning of an efficient capital market. Firms provide disclosure through regulated financial reports, including the financial statements, footnotes,… Expand
Is Group Affiliation Profitable in Emerging Markets? An Analysis of Diversified Indian Business Groups
Emerging markets like India have poorly functioning institutions, leading to severe agency and information problems. Business groups in these markets have the potential both to offer benefits to… Expand
Does Corporate Performance Improve after Mergers?
- Paul Healy, K. Palepu, Richard S. Ruback
- Business
- 1 May 1990
We examine the post-acquisition operating performance of merged firms using a sample of the 50 largest mergers between U.S. public industrial firms completed in the period 1979 to 1983. The results… Expand
Predicting takeover targets: A methodological and empirical analysis
- K. Palepu
- Computer Science, Economics
- 1 March 1986
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The Future of Business Groups in Emerging Markets: Long Run Evidence from Chile
We demonstrate variation in the extent to which firms benefit from their affiliation with Chilean business groups in the 1988-1996 period. The net benefits of unrelated diversification are positive… Expand
Diversification strategy, profit performance and the entropy measure
- K. Palepu
- Economics
- 1 July 1985
Several industrial organization studies, using diversification index measures, examined corporate diversification and economic performance and failed to find any significant relationship between… Expand
Stock Performance and Intermediation Changes Surrounding Sustained Increases in Disclosure
- Paul Healy, A. Hutton, K. Palepu
- Business
- 1 September 1999
This paper investigates whether firms benefit from expanded voluntary disclosure by examining changes in capital market factors associated with increases in analyst disclosure ratings for 97 firms.… Expand
Winning in Emerging Markets: A Road Map for Strategy and Execution
Table of contents Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: The Nature of Institutional Voids in Emerging Markets Chapter Three: Spotting and Responding to Institutional Voids Chapter Four: Exploiting… Expand
Strategies that fit emerging markets.
It's no easy task to identify strategies for entering new international markets or to decide which countries to do business with. Many firms simply go with what they know-and fall far short of their… Expand