Evaluating the behavioural performance of alternative logit models: An application to corporate takeovers research

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 34, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 1193-1220

  Jones, Stewart ^a,b   Hensher, David A ^a  

^a University of Sydeny

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Corporate takeovers; Latent class models; Mixed logit; Nested logit; Prediction

Indexed keywords

EID: 35148829794     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5957.2007.02049.x     Document Type: Article

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