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Title Knights, raiders, and targets : the impact of the hostile takeover / edited by John C. Coffee, Jr., Louis Lowenstein, Susan Rose-Ackerman
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1988

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Description xii, 547 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Contributors -- Sponsors -- Introduction -- 1. Hostile Takeovers and Junk Bond Financing: A Panel Discussion -- Capital Markets, Efficiency, And Corporate Control -- 2. Corporate Control, Efficient Markets, and the Public Good, Martin Shubik -- 3. Fashions, Fads, and Bubbles in Financial Markets, Robert J. Shiller -- 4. Comment, Franklin R. Edwards -- 5. Comment, Michael A. Salinger -- Managerial Behavior And Takeovers -- 6. Shareholders Versus Managers: the Strain in the Corporate Web, John C. Coffee, Jr. -- 7. Corporate Takeovers: Financial Boom or Organizational Bust?, Malcolm S. Salter and Wolf A. Weinhold -- 8. Comment, Victor Brudney -- 9. Comment: Golden Parachutes and Managers--A Risk-Neutral Perspective, Melvin A. Eisenberg -- 10. Comment: Shareholders and Managers--A Risk-Neutral Perspective, Oliver E. Williamson -- Evidence On The Gains From Mergers And Takeovers -- 11. Are Acquiring-Firm Shareholders Better Off after an Acquisition?, Ellen B. Magenheim and Dennis C. Mueller -- 12. Mergers and Managerial Performance, David J. Ravenscraft and F. M. Scherer -- 13. The Efficiency Effects of Hostile Takeovers, Edward S. Herman and Louis Lowenstein -- 14. Empirical Evidence on Takeover Activity and Shareholder Wealth, Richard Roll -- 15. Comment, Michael Bradley and Gregg A. Jarrell -- 16. Comment, Warren A. Law -- 17. Discussion -- Mergers And Takeovers: Taxes, Capital Structure, And The Incentives Of Managers -- 18. Taxation and the Dynamics of Corporate Control: The Uncertain Case for Tax-Motivated Acquisitions, Ronald J. Gilson, Myron S. Scholes, and Mark A. Wolfson -- 19. Taxes and the Merger Decision, Alan J. Auerbach and David Reishus -- 20. The Takeover Controversy: Analysis and Evidence, Michael C. Jensen -- 21. Comment, Richard S. Ruback -- 22. Comment, John L. Vogelstein -- 23. Comment, Elliott J. Weiss -- 24. Comment, Martin D. Ginsburg -- Legal Rules, Takeover Strategies, And Defensive Tactics -- 25. The Pressure to Tender: An Analysis and a Proposed Remedy, Lucian Arye Bebchuk -- 26. Comparative Dimensions of Takeover Regulation, Deborah A. DeMott -- 27. The Regulation of Takeovers in Great Britain, Peter Frazer -- 28. Comment, Douglas H. Ginsburg -- 29. Comment, Marshall L. Small -- 30. Comment, Stanley Sporkin -- One Share, One Vote -- 31. Stock Exchange Rules Affecting Takeovers and Control Transactions, Joel Seligman -- 32. Organized Exchanges and the Regulation of Dual Class Common Stock, Daniel R. Fischel -- 33. Comment, Robert H. Mundheim -- 34. Comment, A. A. Sommer, Jr. -- Index
Analysis United States Companies Mergers & take-overs
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index
Subject Consolidation and merger of corporations.
Corporate reorganizations.
Tender offers (Securities)
Tender offers (Securities) -- United States.
Author Coffee, John C., 1944-
Lowenstein, Louis.
Rose-Ackerman, Susan.
LC no. 86033293
ISBN 0195044045 (paperback: alk. paper)
0195044053 (alk. paper)