A theory on merger timing and announcement returns
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Keywords
Mergers; Merger terms; Timing; Uncertainty; Real Options; Event studies.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- G34 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Mergers; Acquisitions; Restructuring; Corporate Governance
- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2015-09-26 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-IND-2015-09-26 (Industrial Organization)
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