Client firms and bank mergers: Positive wealth effect of bank mergers on distressed firms

Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 113-130

  Tetsuya, Kensuke ^a  

^a HIMEJI DOKKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Distressed firms; Event studies; Merger of banks

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL PROVISION; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; INVESTMENT; MERGER;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; WORLD;

EID: 15344347315     PISSN: 02190915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219091505000282     Document Type: Article

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