Which of the Following Statements Regarding Mergers and Taxes Is

question 57

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements regarding mergers and taxes is FALSE?

• A)Because it may be easier to measure performance accurately in a conglomerate,agency costs may be reduced and resources may be more efficiently allocated.
• B)Because some employees holding company stock are obligated to hold idiosyncratic risk,they benefit when the firm reduces that risk by conglomerating.
• C)Like a large portfolio,large firms bear less idiosyncratic risk,so often mergers are justified on the basis that the combined firm is less risky.
• D)Because most stockholders will already be holding a well-diversified portfolio,they get no further benefit from the firm diversifying through acquisition.

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Definitions:

Ultimatum Games

A type of game in experimental economics where two players interact to decide how to divide a sum of money; one proposes the split, and the other accepts or rejects it.

Endowment Effect

A psychological phenomenon in which people assign higher value to things merely because they own them.

Loss Aversion

In prospect theory, the property of most people’s preferences that the pain generated by losses feels substantially more intense than the pleasure generated by gains.