Do managers listen to the market?

Journal of Corporate Finance

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 347-362

  Kau, James B ^a   Linck, James S ^a   Rubin, Paul H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Agency costs; Information markets; Investment decisions; Learning; Merger

Indexed keywords

EID: 50049128846     PISSN: 09291199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2008.03.002     Document Type: Article

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