Takeover premiums and anticipated merger gains in the us market for corporate control

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 23, Issue 5-6, 1996, Pages 807-829

  Crawford, Dean ^a   Leghner, Thomas A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b PACE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0346670674     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5957.1996.tb01153.x     Document Type: Article

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