Takeover defenses, firm-specific skills and managerial entrenchment
We examine the shareholder wealth effects of takeover defenses by developing a model in which takeovers facilitate the implementation of technological innovations. In the rational expectations equilibrium of the model with explicit contracts, we show that takeover defenses are deployed to insure emp...
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University of Oxford
2005
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