Dickerson, Andrew P.; Gibson, Heather D.; Tsakalotos, Euclid - In: Cambridge Journal of Economics 27 (2003) 3, pp. 337-357
The primary purpose of this paper is to investigate whether companies can use acquisition as a strategy to reduce their likelihood of take-over. The determinants of making an acquisition and being taken over are modelled for the first time within a competing risks framework using two large...