Motives to restructure industries: Finnish evidence of cross-border and domestic mergers and acquisitions

Papers in Regional Science

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-22

  Lehto, Eero ^a  

^a LABOUR INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (Finland)

Author keywords

Home bias; Mergers and acquisitions; Monitoring

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL RESTRUCTURING; LOGIT ANALYSIS; MERGER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 33745543907     PISSN: 10568190     EISSN: 14355957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2006.00023.x     Document Type: Article

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