Doukas, John; Gonenc, Halit; Plantinga, Auke - In: The European Journal of Finance 20 (2014) 12, pp. 1090-1113
This paper studies announcement returns of Western European acquisitions of private and public targets. It uses a contingent claims perspective to offer a new explanation for the difference in abnormal returns between acquirers of private and public targets. In this context, an acquisition is...