The PIN anomaly around M&A announcements

Journal of Financial Markets

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 169-191

  Aktas, Nihat ^a   de Bodt, Eric ^a,b   Declerck, Fany ^c   Van Oppens, Hervé ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOULOUSE CAPITOLE   (France)

Author keywords

Corporate events; Mergers and acquisitions; Probability of information based trading

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247265444     PISSN: 13864181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.finmar.2006.09.003     Document Type: Article

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