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- Title
External vs. In-House Advising Service: Evidence from the Financial Industry Acquisitions †.
- Authors
Huang, Jian; Yu, Han; Zhang, Zhen
- Abstract
This study analyzes the wealth impact on M&A deals when the acquirers in the financial industry utilize external versus in-house advising services. A quasi-natural observatory setting is applied to investigate the costs and benefits of retaining a financial advisor. Based on agency theory, information asymmetry and conflict of interest both exist in the setting of M&A deals when acquirers use advisory services. We first find that almost 40% of financial acquirers are more likely to use in-house advising services, the frequency of which is significantly higher than that of non-financial acquisitions previously documented. Further, we find that in certain complex deals of greater information asymmetry, the frequency of retaining advisory services in-house is even higher. This finding suggests that for financial acquirers who possess expertise in the M&A market, the concern of conflict of interests (i.e., misaligned incentives) between the acquirers and their advisors are more salient than the concern of information asymmetry. More importantly, using the two-stage regressions method controlling the endogeneity of the choice between in-house versus external advisory services, this study finds that the three-day abnormal returns around the acquisition announcements are 4.5% higher for the acquirers retaining in-house advisory services, 18.7% higher for the corresponding target, and the combined merger gains are 2.2% higher. Overall, our findings provide direct evidence of the agency cost when an external advisor is hired and document the incremental values that the financial acquirers' in-house advisory services may create.
- Subjects
IN-house services (Business); FINANCIAL services industry; INFORMATION asymmetry; ABNORMAL returns; AGENCY costs
- Publication
Journal of Risk & Financial Management, 2023, Vol 16, Issue 2, p66
- ISSN
1911-8066
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/jrfm16020066