Unlocking value: Equity carve outs as strategic real options

Journal of Corporate Finance

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 771-792

  Perotti, Enrico ^a   Rossetto, Silvia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Buy back; Equity carve out; Horizontal integration; Real option; Sell out; Vertical integration

Indexed keywords

EID: 36348941707     PISSN: 09291199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2007.03.007     Document Type: Article

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