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Ecdat (version 0.2-9)

Bids: Bids Received By U.S. Firms

Description

a cross-section

number of observations : 126

observation : production units

country : United States

Usage

data(Bids)

Arguments

Format

A dataframe containing :
docno
doc no.
weeks
weeks
numbids
count
takeover
delta (1 if taken over)
bidprem
bid Premium
insthold
institutional holdings
size
size measured in billions
leglrest
legal restructuring
rearest
real restructuring
finrest
financial restructuring
regulatn
regulation
whtknght
white knight

Source

Jaggia, Sanjiv and Satish Thosar (1993) “Multiple Bids as a Consequence of Target Management Resistance”, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 447--457. Cameron, A.C. and Per Johansson (1997) “Count Data Regression Models using Series Expansions: with Applications”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 12, may, 203--223.

References

Cameron, A.C. and Trivedi P.K. (1998) Regression analysis of count data, Cambridge University Press, http://cameron.econ.ucdavis.edu/racd/racddata.html, chapter 5.

Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive : http://jae.wiley.com/jae/.

See Also

Index.Source, Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics, Index.Observations