Cost Inefficiency, Size of Firms and Takeovers

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 397-420

  Trimbath, Susanne ^a   Frydman, Halina ^b   Frydman, Roman ^c  

^a Milken Inst for Job and Cap Form   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisitions; Corporate finance and governance; Econometric methods; Mergers; Models with panel data; Truncated and censored models

Indexed keywords

EID: 24044539970     PISSN: 0924865X     EISSN: 15737179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012739831622     Document Type: Article

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