Analysts and Information Gaps: Lessons from the UAL Buyout

Financial Analysts Journal

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 82-110

  Gilson, Stuart C ^a  

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EID: 0346107290     PISSN: 0015198X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2469/faj.v56.n6.2405     Document Type: Article

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