Eat or Be Eaten: A Theory of Mergers and Firm Size

By Gary B. Gorton, Matthias Kahl, Richard J. Rosen. 2009

279 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Finance

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/87e400ab73aa9bdd0af6ec05fe7eae290129dc01

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5. Tao Chen
6. Micah S. Officer
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• Can Strong Boards and Trading Their Own Firm’s Stock Help CEOs Make Better Decisions? Evidence from Acquisitions by Overconfident CEOs (2013, background): “, Bertrand and Schoar (2003), Graham and Narasimhan (2004), and Xuan (2009)).”