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Is corporate social responsibility an agency problem? An empirical note from takeovers
We rely on the agency motives of the takeover premium to empirically examine whether and how
the acquirer’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance influences the premiums paid in
takeovers. Using a large sample of US takeovers that took place over the period from 1992 to
2014, our results mainly reveal that higher CSR performance at the acquirer level is associated
with higher takeover premium which is consistent with the shareholder expense view. Our results
continue to hold after a battery of additional analyse