Incentive effects, monitoring mechanisms and the market for corporate control: An analysis of the factors affecting public to private transactions in the UK

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 32, Issue 5-6, 2005, Pages 909-943

  Weir, Charlie ^a   Laing, David ^a   Wright, Mike ^b  

^a ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Incentives; Market for corporate control; Monitoring; Public to private transactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844492397     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0306-686X.2005.00617.x     Document Type: Review

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