Corporate financial performance and the use of takeover defenses

European Journal of Law and Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 91-112

  Rose, Caspar ^a  

^a Department of Finance ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Company law; Corporate control; Corporate governance; Simultaneous equation estimation; Takeovers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141988318     PISSN: 09291261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013612718581     Document Type: Article

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