Corporate takeovers
Subtitle: causes and consequences
By: edited by Alan J. Auerbach.
Contributors: Auerbach, Alan J.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: A National Bureau of Economic Research project report
Publisher: University of Chicago Press; Univ of Chicago Pr
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
Subjects: Consolidation and merger of corporations -- Congresses.; Consolidation and merger of corporations -- United States -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Papers originally presented at a National Bureau of Economic Research conference in Feb. 1987 in Key Largo.
Table of contents: title: The impact of firm acquisitions on labor / Charles Brown and James L. Medoff; title: Breach of trust of hostile takeovers / Andrei Shleifer and Lawrence H. Summers; title: The effect of takeover activity on corporate research and development / Bronwyn H. Hall - Characteristics of targets in hostile and friendly takeovers / Randall Mørck, Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny; title: Do target shareholders lose in unsuccessful control contests? / Richard S. Ruback; title: The effects of taxation on the merger decision / Alan J. Auerbach and David Reishus; title: Share repurchases and acquisitions / Laurie Simon Bagwell and John B. Shoven; title: Means of payment in takeovers / Julian R. Franks, Robert S. Harris and Colin Mayer; title: A time-series analysis of mergers and acquisitions in the U.S. economy / Devra L. Golbe and Lawrence J. White; title: Panel discussion : corporate takeovers and public policy / Joseph A. Grundfest ... [et al.].