Acquisitions, overconfident managers and self-attribution bias

European Financial Management

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 531-577

  Doukas, John A ^a   Petmezas, Dimitris ^b  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Managerial overconfidence; Mergers and acquisitions; Self attribution bias; Short term and long term performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249005243     PISSN: 13547798     EISSN: 1468036X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-036X.2007.00371.x     Document Type: Article

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