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We model how a rent-protection motive drives the choice of flotation method in new equity issuance between two polar cases: rights issues and cash offers. Unexpected new blockholders would emerge in control-diluting cash offers and share in jealously guarded control benefits. But rights issues...

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"Preface" -- "Contents" -- "Chapter 1: Introduction" -- "Chapter 2: Location Theory" -- "2.1 Spatial Interaction" -- "2.1.1 Newton Potential" -- "2.1.2 Maximum Entropy Model" -- "2.1.3 Agent-Based Model (Population Model)" -- "2.1.4 A Physical Image of Spatial Interaction" -- "2.1.4.1 MIF and...