Much Ado About Nothing. The Effects of Hedge Fund Activism in Germany.
- 1 January 2011
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier BV in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
In this paper I analyze the effects of 278 instances of hedge fund sharehold- ings in German publicly listed companies between 1999 and 2010. Though I observe sThis publication has 44 references indexed in Scilit:
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