Pre-empting technology competition through firm acquisitions

Economics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 189-191

  Grimpe, Christoph ^a,b   Hussinger, Katrin ^a,b,c  

^a CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Mergers and acquisitions; Pre empting technology competition

Indexed keywords

EID: 66149179796     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2008.01.003     Document Type: Article

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