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  • 标题:The Determinants of Mergers & Acquisitions in a Resource-Based Industry: What Role for Environmental Sustainability?
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  • 作者:Roberto Leon-Gonzalez ; Lise Tole
  • 期刊名称:International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training (IJRVET)
  • 印刷版ISSN:2197-8646
  • 出版年度:2016
  • 卷号:7
  • 期号:2
  • 出版社:European Research Network in Vocational Education and Training (VETNET), European Educational Research Association
  • 摘要:This paper examines the relationship between environmental stringency and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in a highly polluting, resource-based industry. Specifically, it seeks to determine whether buyers are targeting countries with the same or different levels of environmental stringency than in their own country, i.e. whether pollution havens exist in the global mining industry. Rather than aggregate investment, which has been used by most previous studies, we analyze a dataset of individual investment choices. We model the choice of country and the amount invested jointly as the two variables are likely to be correlated. The choice of country is modeled using a random parameters multinomial Logit model. We use a hitherto unanalyzed data set of the value paid for all completed M&A in the mining industry worldwide between 1994 and 2006. We find no evidence of pollution havens in this industry. If anything, buyers from countries with high levels of environmental stringency are more likely to invest in countries with a similar level of environmental stringency and make larger investments in them than in less environmentally stringent countries.
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