Bids Received By U.S. Firms

Description

a cross-section

number of observations : 126

observation : production units

country : United States

Usage

data(Bids)

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://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/.

See Also

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