Do tender offers create value? New methods and evidence

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-60

  Bhagat, Sanjai ^a   Dong, Ming ^b   Hirshleifer, David ^c   Noah, Robert ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Cambridge Finance Partners   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency problems; Revelation bias; Tender offers; Truncation dilemma; Value improvements

Indexed keywords

EID: 15344345962     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2004.05.002     Document Type: Article

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