Security price reaction to divestments by healthy and financially distressed firms: The case of MBOs

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 85-90

  Saadouni, B ^c   Briston, R J ^c   Mallin, C A ^a   Robbie, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0005765266     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/096031096334493     Document Type: Article

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