Are corporate restructuring events driven by common factors? Implications for takeover prediction

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 34, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 1169-1192

  Powell, Ronan ^a   Yawson, Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bankruptcies; Corporate restructuring; Divestitures; Layoffs; Takeovers; Type II error

Indexed keywords

EID: 35148898660     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5957.2007.02028.x     Document Type: Article

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