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Applied Economics Letters Volume 20, 2013 - Issue 6
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On the relation between the relative size of acquisitions and the wealth of acquiring firms

Ivo Ph. Jansen School of Business – Camden, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ, 08102, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Lee W. Sanning Department of Economics, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, 99362, USA
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Nathan V. Stuart College of Business, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI, 54901, USA
Pages 534-539 | Published online: 29 Aug 2012

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