Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/68871 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
Diskussionsbeiträge - Serie I No. 319
Publisher: 
Universität Konstanz, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Konstanz
Abstract: 
The effect of severance pay on management behavior during a takeover battle is generally ambiguous. Yet, the severance payment completely restraining all influence activities always constitutes a golden handshake. The manager leaving office still benefits from the increase in the merged firm's total value. Moreover, given that the managers are compensated according to an identical linear incentive scheme, the optimal shareholder policy always entails a corner solution. Managers will either receive no severance pay, or the payment will be chosen such that their influence activities equal zero. Relatively strong incentive intensities and low synergy gains then imply that offering no severance pay dominates.
Subjects: 
mergers
contests
golden handshakes
JEL: 
G34
M12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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