The Determinants of Merger Waves
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Keywords
Mergers waves; managerial discretion; overvaluation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- G34 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Mergers; Acquisitions; Restructuring; Corporate Governance
- L2 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2006-02-05 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-FIN-2006-02-05 (Finance)
- NEP-FMK-2006-02-05 (Financial Markets)
- NEP-IND-2006-02-05 (Industrial Organization)
- NEP-MIC-2006-02-05 (Microeconomics)
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