Size, ownership and the market for corporate control
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چکیده
Article history: Received 3 September 2008 Accepted 3 September 2008 Available online 9 September 2008 This paper is writtenwith two goals inmind. The first is to offer a critical discussion of papers by Bauguess, Moeller, Schlingemann, and Zutter [Bauguess, Scott, Moeller, Sara, Schlingemann, Frederich and Zutter, Chad, 2009. Ownership structure and target returns. Journal of Corporate Finance, this issue], and Offenberg [Offenberg, David, 2009. Firm size and the effectiveness of the market for corporate control. Journal of Corporate Finance, this issue], both of which appear in this special issue. The second goal is to offer some perspectives about new questions that these papers bring to light. © 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. JEL classification: G30 G34
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