Glamour, value and the post-acquisition performance of acquiring firms

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 223-253

  Raghavendra Rau, P ^a   Vermaelen, Theo ^b,c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSEAD   (France)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bootstrapping; G14; G34; Long horizon event studies; Mergers; Post acquisition performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001012637     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0304-405x(98)00023-3     Document Type: Article

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