Private and public merger waves

Journal of Finance

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2177-2217

  Maksimovic, Vojislav ^a   Phillips, Gordon ^b   Yang, Liu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84883710816     PISSN: 00221082     EISSN: 15406261     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jofi.12055     Document Type: Article

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