Motivated monitors: The importance of institutional investors' portfolio weights

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 21-48

  Fich, Eliezer M ^a   Harford, Jarrad ^b   Tran, Anh L ^c  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Institutional investors; Mergers and acquisitions; Monitoring; Takeover premiums

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941601226     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2015.06.014     Document Type: Article

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