The long-term performance of acquiring firms: A re-examination of an anomaly

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1400-1412

  Dutta, Shantanu ^a   Jog, Vijay ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Long term performance; Market efficiency; Mergers and acquisitions

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349106458     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2009.02.004     Document Type: Article

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