Is acquiring-firm shareholder approval in stock-for-stock mergers perfunctory?

Financial Management

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 45-69

  Burch, Timothy R ^a   Morgan, Angela G ^b   Wolf, Jack G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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