Bidder returns in interstate and intrastate bank acquisitions

Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

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Agency Costs, Managerial Aspect, Ownership Structure +11

Corporate financing and investment decisions when firms have information that investors do not have

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Investment Decisions, Corporate Risk Management, Financial Management +7

Agency Costs of Free Cash Flow, Corporate Finance, and Takeovers

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Richard Roll · The Journal of Business · 1986 · 3.8K citations

Organizational Economics, Law, Bidding Firms +18

Estimating betas from nonsynchronous data

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Nonsynchronous Data, Engineering, Data Science +6