Financing and takeovers

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 556-581

  Morellec, Erwan ^a,b   Zhdanov, Alexei ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capital structure; Option games; Real options; Takeovers

Indexed keywords

EID: 40849145400     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2007.01.006     Document Type: Article

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