Can strong boards and trading their own firms stock help CEOs make better decisions? Evidence from acquisitions by overconfident CEOs

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1173-1206

  Kolasinski, Adam C ^a   Li, Xu ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 84878350247     PISSN: 00221090     EISSN: 17566916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022109013000392     Document Type: Article

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