Takeover risk and the market for corporate control: The experience of British firms in the 1970s and 1980s

International Journal of Industrial Organization

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2002, Pages

  Dickerson, Andrew P ^a   Gibson, Heather D ^b   Tsakalotos, Euclid ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b BANK OF GREECE   (Greece)

^c ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Hazard functions; Market for corporate control; Takeovers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036824012     PISSN: 01677187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7187(01)00073-x     Document Type: Article

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