Timing and wealth effects of German dual class stock unifications

European Financial Management

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 163-196

  Dittmann, Ingolf ^a   Ulbricht, Niels ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capital structure; Entrenchment; Financial constraints; Liquidity; Ownership structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 37649010095     PISSN: 13547798     EISSN: 1468036X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-036X.2007.00388.x     Document Type: Article

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