The Parent Company Puzzle: When is the Whole Worth Less Than One of Its Parts
Preprint
- 1 January 2000
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
This paper examines seven instances in which the market value of a parent company was less than the market value of its holdings of a publicly traded subsidiaryKeywords
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