Acquisition activity of large depository institutions in the 1990s:: An empirical analysis of motives

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 467-484

  Ely, David P ^a   Song, Moon H ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisitions; Banks; Ownership structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043189014     PISSN: 10629769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1062-9769(00)00052-1     Document Type: Article

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