Do Firms Undertake Self-Tender Offers to Optimize Capital Structure?

Journal of Business

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 609-639

  Lie, Erik ^a  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

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EID: 0141942648     PISSN: 00219398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/341637     Document Type: Article

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