The significance of sell-off profitability in explaining the market reaction to divestiture announcements

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 671-688

  Clubb, Colin ^a   Stouraitis, Aris ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Accounting information; Corporate restructuring; Sell offs; Valuation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036190261     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4266(01)00169-8     Document Type: Article

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