Gaining a Competitive Edge Through Acquisitions: Evidence from the Telecom Industry
Preprint
- 1 January 2003
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier BV in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we study the announcement effects of all acquisitions in the recent telecom wave on both the acquirors and their non-merging competitors. We exteKeywords
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