Negotiations under the threat of an auction

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 241-255

  Aktas, Nihat ^a   de Bodt, Eric ^b   Roll, Richard ^c  

^a EMLYON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Auction costs; Bid premium; Latent competition; Merger negotiations

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957128931     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2010.06.002     Document Type: Article

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