Minority shareholders' wealth effects and stock market development: Evidence from increase-in-ownership M&As

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 681-694

  Croci, Ettore ^a   Petmezas, Dimitris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Increase in ownership mergers and acquisitions; Minority shareholders; Stock market development; Target returns

Indexed keywords

EID: 74149091168     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2009.09.003     Document Type: Article

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