Do antitakeover provisions harm shareholders?

Journal of Corporate Finance

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 487-497

  Stráska, Miroslava ^a   Waller, Gregory ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antitakeover provisions; Corporate governance; Governance index; Tobin's Q

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955171969     PISSN: 09291199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2010.04.004     Document Type: Article

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