The impact of family ownership and dual class shares on takeover risk

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 785-804

  Holmen, M ^a   Nivorozhkin, E ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRM OWNERSHIP; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE;

EID: 34447312856     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: 14664305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09603100500461694     Document Type: Article

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