Going public to acquire? The acquisition motive in IPOs

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 345-363

  Celikyurt, Ugur ^a   Sevilir, Merih ^b   Shivdasani, Anil ^b  

^a KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition currency; Acquisitions; Initial public offerings; Mergers

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952885273     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2010.03.003     Document Type: Article

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