Spillover of corporate governance standards in cross-border mergers and acquisitions

Journal of Corporate Finance

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 200-223

  Martynova, Marina ^a   Renneboog, Luc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Contractual convergence; Corporate governance regulation; Creditor protection; Cross border; Mergers and acquisitions; Minority shareholder protection; Shareholder protection; Takeover regulation; Takeover synergies; Takeovers

Indexed keywords

EID: 44649094471     PISSN: 09291199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2008.03.004     Document Type: Article

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