THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OPTIMISM AND MERGER AND ACQUISITION WAVES: EVIDENCE FROM THE BRAZILIAN MARKET

Fonseca, Rodrigo Raposo da; Almeida, Vinicio de Souza e

doi:10.1590/S0034-759020230102

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ARTICLES • Rev. adm. empres. 63 (01) • 2023 • https://doi.org/10.1590/S0034-759020230102x linkcopy

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OPTIMISM AND MERGER AND ACQUISITION WAVES: EVIDENCE FROM THE BRAZILIAN MARKET

Authorship SCIMAGO INSTITUTIONS RANKINGS

The reason why mergers and acquisitions occur in waves is still a subject rarely explored in the financial literature, especially in a context of markets outside the USA and UK. Therefore, the present study investigates whether the optimism of the agents could led to a wave of M&A, using Brazilian data from 2007 to 2017 of transactions and the Business Confidence Index, wich measures the optimism of the entrepreneurs about the current and future economy scenario. We used Harford (2005)’s definition for a M&A wave. Using a Logit binary response model, the study pointed out that optimism increases the probability of M&A wave. Ibovespa was the variable that had the greater effect on the probabilities of a M&A wave. The results were significant for different lags.

Keywords:
mergers and acquisitions waves; mergers and acquisitions; optimism; agent confidence; logit

Variable	Description	Previous studies
Wave	Dummy – 1 if the transaction occurred during an M&A wave
BCI	Business Confidence Index
BCI - 1	BCI – lag of 1 period
BCI - 2	BCI – lag of 2 periods
BCI - 3	BCI – lag of 3 periods
BCI - 6	BCI – lag of 6 periods
BCI - 12	BCI – lag of 12 periods
Spread	Spread applied on the firms’ credit operations (excluding the subsidized ones)	Harford (2005); Gugler, Mueller, Weichselbaumer, and Yurtoglu (2012)
Consultant	Dummy – 1 if the transaction counted on a financial consultant	Bao and Edmans (2011); Hermansson and Song (2016)
Stock	Dummy – 1 if the transaction was totally or partially financed with stocks	Rhodes-Kropf and Viswanathan (2004); Shleifer and Vishny (2003)
Cross-border	Dummy – 1 if cross-border transaction	Chandhuri (2014); Xu (2017)
Lo gTA	Logarithm of total assets	Rhodes-Kropf et al. (2005)
PB	Price-to-book at the end of the previous year	Rhodes-Kropf and Viswanathan (2004); Rhodes-Kropf et al. (2005); Goel and Thankor (2010); Haleblian et al. (2012)
EBITDA	EBITDA in the previous year
Leverage	Leverage in the previous year	Rhodes-Kropf et al. (2005)
TOBQ	Tobin’s Q in the previous year	Jovanovic and Rousseau (2002)
LogIBOV	Logarithm IBOV	Shleifer and Vishny (2003); Harford (2005); Goel and Thankor (2010); Gugler, Mueller, Weichselbaumer, and Yurtoglu (2012)
Basic materials	Dummy – 1 if in the basic materials sector
Communications	Dummy – 1 if in the communications sector
Consumer, cyclical	Dummy – 1 if in the consumer sector – cyclical
Consumer, non-cyclical	Dummy – 1 if in the consumer sector – non cyclical
Diversified	Dummy – 1 if in diversified sectors
Energy	Dummy – 1 if in the energy sector
Financial	Dummy – 1 if in the financial sector
Real estate	Dummy – 1 if in the construction sector
Industrial	Dummy – 1 if in the industrial sector
Technology	Dummy – 1 if in the technology sector
Utilities	Dummy – 1 if in the utilities sector

Filter	Number of transactions	Transactions that occurred during M&A waves
All data	3,269	29.89%
Type of payment	2,060	30.00%
Total asset	1,370	29.64%
Price-to-book	1,169	30.37%
EBITDA	1,055	29.57%
Leverage	1,042	29.85%
Tobin’s Q	1,033	29.62%

Variables	Mean	Standard-deviation	Obs
Wave	0.30	0.46	1,033
BCI	100.20	12.92	1,033
BCI - 1	100.54	12.74	1,033
BCI - 2	100.75	12.67	1,033
BCI - 3	100.99	12.77	1,033
BCI - 6	101.11	12.98	1,033
BCI - 12	101.72	12.60	1,033
Spread	0.14	0.02	1,033
Consultant	0.25	0.44	1,033
Stock	0.12	0.32	1,033
Cross-border	0.51	0.50	1,033
Lo gTA	3.72	0.94	1,033
PB	10.64	139.75	1,033
EBITDA	4,029.80	11,343.05	1,033
Leverage	3.90	10.03	1,033
TOBQ	3.16	34.57	1,033
LogIBOV	4.75	0.07	1,033
Basic materials	0.12	0.32	1,033
Communications	0.06	0.24	1,033
Consumer, cyclical	0.08	0.27	1,033
Consumer, non-cyclical	0.27	0.44	1,033
Diversified	0.01	0.11	1,033
Energy	0.06	0.23	1,033
Financial	0.04	0.21	1,033
Real estate	0.12	0.32	1,033
Industrial	0.10	0.31	1,033
Technology	0.06	0.24	1,033
Utilities	0.07	0.26	1,033

Variables	Wave		Of wave		∆	∆%
Variables	Mean	Standard-deviation	Mean	Standard-deviation
BCI	106.21	3.15	97.68	14.54	8.53	8.74%
BCI - 1	106.62	3.34	97.99	14.29	8.63	8.81%
BCI - 2	106.98	3.47	98.13	14.14	8.86	9.03%
BCI - 3	107.39	3.54	98.30	14.21	9.09	9.25%
BCI - 6	108.68	3.49	97.92	14.14	10.76	10.99%
BCI - 12	111.04	2.68	97.80	13.06	13.25	13.55%
Spread	0.15	0.01	0.14	0.02	0.01	6.41%
Consultant	0.26	0.44	0.25	0.43	0.01	2.56%
Stock	0.11	0.44	0.12	0.33	-0.02	-12.89%
Cross-border	0.47	0.50	0.53	0.50	-0.06	-10.52%
LogTA	3.65	0.90	3.75	0.96	-0.10	-2.77%
PB	3.48	11.76	13.65	166.36	-10.17	-74.50%
EBITDA	3,172.46	9,846.06	4,390.67	11,904.93	-1,218.21	-27.75%
Leverage	2.95	6.10	4.31	11.26	-1.36	-31.50%
TOBQ	1.84	1.49	3.72	41.20	-1.88	-50.59%
LogIBOV	4.82	0.03	4.72	0.07	0.09	2.01%
Basic materials	0.11	0.31	0.12	0.33	-0.01	-9.24%
Communications	0.03	0.18	0.08	0.26	-0.04	-56.80%
Consumer, cyclical	0.07	0.25	0.08	0.27	-0.01	-15.44%
Consumer, non-cyclical	0.28	0.45	0.26	0.44	0.02	8.79%
Diversified	0.00	0.06	0.02	0.12	-0.01	-78.40%
Energy	0.08	0.26	0.05	0.22	0.02	47.69%
Financial	0.03	0.16	0.05	0.22	-0.03	-49.98%
Real estate	0.15	0.36	0.10	0.31	0.05	46.93%
Industrial	0.13	0.34	0.09	0.29	0.04	45.39%
Technology	0.04	0.20	0.07	0.26	-0.03	-39.44%
Utilities	0.07	0.25	0.07	0.26	-0.01	-7.61%
Observations	306		727

Wave	I	II	III	IV	V	VI
Intercept	-209.30***	-204.80***	-201.84***	-199.35***	-192.55***	-165.66***
Intercept	(16.50)	(16.28)	(15.84)	(15.51)	(16.05)	(17.43)
BCI	0.12***	0.10***	0.09***	0.07***	0.07***	0.18***
BCI	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.02)
Spread	35.25***	34.33***	30.93***	28.89***	24.02***	17.96***
Spread	(6.175)	(6.16)	(5.99)	(5.87)	(5.55)	(6.23)
Consultant	0.18	0.09	0.04	0.00	0.03	-0.14
Consultant	(0.27)	(0.27)	(0.27)	(0.27)	(0.26)	(0.26)
Stock	-0.70*	-0.60*	-0.56	-0.60*	-0.78**	-0.74**
Stock	(0.37)	(0.36)	(0.36)	(0.35)	(0.35)	(0.35)
Cross-border	0.21	0.21	0.18	0.16	0.19	0.27
Cross-border	(0.24)	(0.24)	(0.23)	(0.23)	(0.23)	(0.23)
LogAT	-0.04	-0.04	-0.05	-0.06	-0.08	0.05
LogAT	(0.17)	(0.16)	(0.16)	(0.15)	(0.15)	(0.15)
Price-to-book	-0.01	-0.01	-0.01	0.00	0.00	-0.01
Price-to-book	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.01)
EBITDA	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
EBITDA	(0.00)	(0.00)	(0.00)	(0.00)	(0.00)	(0.00)
Leverage	-0.02	-0.02	-0.02	-0.02	-0.02	-0.01
Leverage	(0.02)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.02)	(0.01)
TOBQ	-0.06	-0.09	-0.10***	-0.10*	-0.09*	-0.07
TOBQ	(0.05)	(0.06)	(0.06)	(0.06)	(0.05)	(0.05)
LogIBOV	40.11***	39.44***	39.24***	39.10***	37.94***	29.82***
LogIBOV	(3.42)	(3.38)	(3.30)	(3.26)	(3.46)	(3.71)
Basic Materials	-0.30	-0.01	0.20	0.29	0.23	0.52
Basic Materials	(0.48)	(0.47)	(0.47)	(0.48)	(0.46)	(0.45)
Communications	-0.53	-0.17	0.10	0.12	-0.13	-0.18
Communications	(0.48)	(0.50)	(0.53)	(0.53)	(0.52)	(0.54)
Consumer, Cyclical	-0.13	0.15	0.32	0.37	0.27	0.60
Consumer, Cyclical	(0.49)	(0.48)	(0.49)	(0.50)	(0.49)	(0.50)
Consumer, Non-cyclical	0.03	0.33	0.49	0.55	0.43	0.69*
Consumer, Non-cyclical	(0.38)	(0.37)	(0.39)	(0.41)	(0.39)	(0.40)
Diversified	-2.76**	-2.41**	-2.13**	-1.99*	-1.97*	-2.28**
Diversified	(1.19)	(1.13)	(1.07)	(1.03)	(1.07)	(1.07)
Energy	0.57	0.96	1.20**	1.24**	1.11*	1.62***
Energy	(0.66)	(0.65)	(0.64)	(0.63)	(0.60)	(0.56)
Financial	-0.71	-0.43	-0.23	-0.14	-0.21	0.15
Financial	(0.69)	(0.66)	(0.67)	(0.66)	(0.62)	(0.61)
Real Estate	0.52	0.78*	0.96**	1.01**	0.84*	1.19**
Real Estate	(0.47)	(0.47)	(0.48)	(0.48)	(0.46)	(0.47)
Industrial	0.34	0.61	0.80	0.87*	0.73	1.12**
Industrial	(0.47)	(0.47)	(0.49)	(0.49)	(0.47)	(0.48)
Technology	0.15	0.45	0.63	0.67	0.53	0.85
Technology	(0.61)	(0.59)	(0.60)	(0.61)	(0.62)	(0.68)
Obs.	1,033	1,033	1,033	1,033	1,033	1,033
Pseudo R2	0.57	0.55	0.54	0.53	0.51	0.53
AIC	588,906	604,691	621,632	636,382	653,474	630,259
BIC	697,591	713,376	730,317	745,067	762,159	738,944
Wald test	280.19***	276.62***	286.71***	297.52***	324.25***	245.41***

	I	II	III	IV	V	VI
Total hit rate (%)	89.74%	88.87%	87.51%	86.83%	85.87%	88.00%
Positive hit rate (%)	84.01%	81.73%	78.46%	77.07%	75.16%	79.17%
Negative hit rate (%)	92.02%	91.80%	91.41%	91.10%	90.63%	91.82%

Variables	I	II	III	IV	V	VI
BCI	0.008***	0.007***	0.006***	0.005***	0.005***	0.008***
BCI	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.002)
Spread	2.349***	2.311***	2.128***	2.053***	1.696***	0.826**
Spread	(0.013)	(0.602)	(0.568)	(0.544)	(0.482)	(0.402)
Consultant	0.013	0.006	0.003	0.000	0.002	-0.006
Consultant	(0.020)	(0.019)	(0.019)	(0.019)	(0.019)	(0.011)
Stock	-0.038**	-0.034*	-0.033*	-0.035**	-0.043***	-0.027**
Stock	(0.016)	(0.017)	(0.018)	(0.017)	(0.016)	(0.011)
Cross-border	0.014	0.014	0.012	0.011	0.014	0.012
Cross-border	(0.016)	(0.016)	(0.016)	(0.017)	(0.017)	(0.011)
LogAT	-0.003	-0.003	-0.004	-0.005	-0.006	0.002
LogAT	(0.011)	(0.011)	(0.011)	(0.011)	(0.011)	(0.007)
PB	-0.001	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
PB	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.000)
EBITDA	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
EBITDA	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)
Leverage	-0.001	-0.001	-0.001	-0.001	-0.001	0.000
Leverage	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.001)
TOBQ	-0.004	-0.006	-0.007*	-0.007*	-0.007*	-0.003
TOBQ	(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.002)
LogIBOV	2.673***	2.655***	2.699***	2.778***	2.679***	1.371***
LogIBOV	(0.347)	(0.354)	(0.353)	(0.348)	(0.328)	(0.265)

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[TFN15] Source: Elaborated by the authors.

[TFN16] Note: Previous studies are not indicated in the case of independent and control variables used in specific industries.