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Findings from several studies on corporate mergers and acquisitions during the 1970’s and 1980’s raise questions about why firms initiate and consummate such transactions. One study showed, for example,
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that acquiring firms were on average unable to maintain acquired firms’ pre-merger levels of profitability. A second study concluded that post- acquisition gains to most acquiring firms were not adequate to cover the premiums paid to obtain

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acquired firms. A third demonstrated that, following the announcement of a prospective merger, the stock of the prospective acquiring firm tends to increase in value much less than does that of the firm for which it bids. Yet mergers and acquisitions
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remain common, . Acquisitions may well have the desirable effect of channeling a nation’s resources efficiently from less to more efficient sectors of its economy, but the
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individual acquisitions executives arranging these deals must see them as advancing either their own or their companies’ private economic interests. It seems that factors having little to do with corporate economic interests explain acquisitions. These
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factors may include the incentive compensation of executives, lack of monitoring by boards of directors, and managerial error in estimating the value of firms targeted for acquisition. Alternatively, the acquisition acts of bidders may derive from
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modeling: a manager does what other managers do.
The author of the passage mentions the effect of acquisitions on national economies most probably in order to
A. provide an explanation for the mergers and acquisitions of the 1970’s and 1980’s overlooked by the findings discussed in the passage
B. suggest that national economic interests played an important role in the mergers and acquisitions of the 1970’s and 1980’s
C. support a noneconomic explanation for the mergers and acquisitions of the 1970’s and 1980’s that was cited earlier in the passage
D. cite and point out the inadequacy of one possible explanation for the prevalence of mergers and acquisitions during the 1970’s and 1980’s
E. explain how modeling affected the decisions made by managers involved in mergers and acquisitions during the 1970’s and 1980’s
答案为D 但是有几点不明白
1）og里的解答是这样的：The passage uses the mention of national economies as part of a larger point questioning the stated motivations behind firms’ efforts to acquire other firms. 但感觉文中提及收购对国家经济的作用与前一句话是连续的，是前一句话的补充并没有去质疑企业收购的动机？（前一话说企业认为他们收购是为了经济，后一句话指出收购行为对经济的作用）
2）选项中的 one possible explanation指的是什么？是指前一句话认为收购是为了经济（and bidders continue to assert that their objectives are economic ones）还是指收购者其实是为了自己的利益和公司利益去收购（ the individual acquisitions executives arranging these deals must see them as advancing either their own or their companies’ private economic interests）？要怎么判断呢？

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