The value of corporate governance : evidence from American mergers
This thesis extends the growing literature relating shareholder protection and greater valuation. Using a governance index built from 24 firm-level takeover defenses over a sample of 491 mergers from 1990 to 2001, we provide evidence that investors value a change in corporate governance. We find tha...
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2004
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| Online Access: | http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/8015/1/MQ94789.pdf Parsy, Maud <http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/view/creators/Parsy=3AMaud=3A=3A.html> (2004) The value of corporate governance : evidence from American mergers. Masters thesis, Concordia University. |