Strategic merger waves: A theory of musical chairs

Journal of Economic Theory

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-26

  Toxvaerd, Flavio ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c CEPR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamic global games; Merger waves; Preemption; Real options games

Indexed keywords

EID: 43049137699     PISSN: 00220531     EISSN: 10957235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2007.05.003     Document Type: Article

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