Takeovers and the debt assessments of firms and the stock market

The dissertation proposes a "speculative leveraging" theory of hostile corporate takeovers in the merger wave of the 1980s. It hypothesizes that takeovers became widespread because intense financial market competition during the 1970s created a short time horizon and a preference for lever...

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Main Author: Goldstein, Donald
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 1991
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9207405