Investigating the Economic Role of Mergers
Preprint
- 1 January 1998
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
What is the economic role of mergers? We investigate this issue by performing a comparative study of mergers and other forms of corporate investment, at the inKeywords
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