Product Market Competition, Managerial Incentives and Firm Valuation

European Financial Management

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 331-366

  Beiner, Stefan ^a   Schmid, Markus M ^b   Wanzenried, Gabrielle ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^c LUCERNE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Firm valuation; Managerial incentives; Principal agent relationship; Product market competition; Strategic interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952028702     PISSN: 13547798     EISSN: 1468036X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-036X.2009.00505.x     Document Type: Article

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