Takeovers in New Zealand: Motives, stockholder returns, and executive share ownership

Pacific Basin Finance Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 419-440

  Firth, Michael ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Director's shareholdings; Stock returns; Takeovers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031232140     PISSN: 0927538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0927-538x(97)00017-6     Document Type: Article

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