The Real Effects of Hedge Fund Activism: Productivity, Risk, and Product Market Competition
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Keywords
Hedge funds; Governance; Productivity;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
- G23 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Non-bank Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments; Institutional Investors
- G34 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Mergers; Acquisitions; Restructuring; Corporate Governance
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2012-07-29 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-EFF-2012-07-29 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-HME-2012-07-29 (Heterodox Microeconomics)
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