“…Prior research has identified method of payment decisions to be related to bidding company attributes including size, agency and governance environment, valuation, capital structure and ownership with cash more likely to be used as the acquisition method of payment if bidders are larger and have stronger governance structures, undervalued stock, greater financing flexibility, higher equity costs, and more concentrated and family ownership structures (Martin 1996;Rhodes-Kropf and Viswanathan 2004;Rossi and Volpin 2004;Faccio and Masulis 2005;Basu, Dimitrova, and Paeglis 2009;Martynova and Renneboog 2009;Teti, Dallocchio, and Currao 2020). Attributes of targets which are correlated with method of payment choice include firm size and relative target to bidder size, underlying risk and listing status (Chang 1998;Faccio, McConnell, and Stolin 2006;Capron and Shen 2007;Officer, Poulsen, and Stegemoller 2009;Boone, Lie, and Liu 2014;Huang, Officer, and Powell 2016) and acquisition-specific determinants of method of payment choice that have been identified include acquisition size, full or partial bid structure, bidder toeholds, and the industry match between bidding and target firms.…”