Market Reactions to Corporate Restructurings

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 269-290

  Poon, Percy S ^a   Newbould, Gerald D ^a,b   Durtschi, Cindy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Negative information content; Negative stock price reactions; Restructurings

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144495613     PISSN: 0924865X     EISSN: 15737179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011288504426     Document Type: Article

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