Valuation Waves and Merger Activity: The Empirical Evidence
Preprint
- 1 January 2004
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
To test recent theories that suggest valuation errors affect merger activity, we develop a decomposition that breaks M/B into three components: the firm-specifiKeywords
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