Hold-Up, Stakeholders, and Takeover Threats

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

1986 • 17,982 citations

The Costs and Benefits of Ownership: A Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration

1986 • 9,393 citations

What Do We Know about Capital Structure? Some Evidence from International Data

1995 • 6,521 citations

Takeover Bids, The Free-Rider Problem, and the Theory of the Corporation

1980 • 3,168 citations

Formal and Real Authority in Organizations

1997 • 2,967 citations

Trade Credit: Theories and Evidence

1997 • 2,171 citations

Do Managerial Objectives Drive Bad Acquisitions?

1990 • 1,912 citations

Takeover Threats and Managerial Myopia

1988 • 1,659 citations

A Theory of Predation Based on Agency Problems in Financial Contracting

1990 • 1,629 citations

Large Shareholders, Monitoring, and the Value of the Firm

1997 • 1,584 citations

The theory of contracts

1987 • 1,374 citations

Takeovers: Their Causes and Consequences

1988 • 1,346 citations

Incomplete Contracts: Where do We Stand?

1999 • 1,196 citations

The Market for Corporate Control: The Empirical Evidence Since 1980

1988 • 1,183 citations

Investment and Wages in the Absence of Binding Contracts: A Nash Bargaining Approach

1984 • 965 citations

Poison or placebo? Evidence on the deterrence and wealth effects of modern antitakeover measures

1995 • 820 citations

Breach of Trust in Hostile Takeovers

1988 • 728 citations

The Existence of Self-Enforcing Implicit Contracts

1987 • 692 citations

MERGERS AND MARKET POWER -- EVIDENCE FROM THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY.

1993 • 656 citations

Financial markets and corporate strategy

1997 • 608 citations

Renegotiation Design with Unverifiable Information

1994 • 563 citations

Do Managerial Objectives Drive Bad Acquisitions?

1990 • 495 citations

Option Contracts and Renegotiation: A Solution to the Hold-up Problem

1995 • 488 citations

Corporate Takeovers: Causes and Consequences

1989 • 457 citations

The Threat of Unionization, the Use of Debt, and the Preservation of Shareholder Wealth

1991 • 451 citations

Capital Structure and Corporate Control: The Effect of Antitakeover Statutes on Firm Leverage

1999 • 444 citations

Investigating the economic role of mergers

2002 • 435 citations

Poison pill securities

1988 • 403 citations

Sequential Bargaining with Incomplete Information

1983 • 383 citations

Bondholder Losses in Leveraged Buyouts

1993 • 332 citations

Capital structure as a bargaining tool : the role of leverage in contract renegotiation

1993 • 313 citations

Incomplete Contracts, Specific Investments, and Risk Sharing

1991 • 310 citations

Corporate Takeovers: The Efficiency Arguments

1988 • 276 citations

Event risk, covenants, and bondholder returns in leveraged buyouts

1990 • 260 citations

Trade Credit, Collateral, and Adverse Selection

1998 • 237 citations

Productivity and Labor Unions: An Application of the Theory of Self- Enforcing Contracts

1983 • 198 citations

Reversions of Excess Pension Assets after Takeovers

1990 • 180 citations

What Do We Know About Capital Structure? Some Evidence from International Data

1994 • 180 citations

Do Takeover Targets Underperform? Evidence from Operating and Stock Returns

2003 • 175 citations

ESOPs and corporate control

1990 • 165 citations

Pension Reversions and Worker-Stockholder Wealth Transfers

1992 • 125 citations

Unionization, Incomplete Contracting, and Capital Investment

1993 • 103 citations

The Role of ESOPs in Takeover Contests

1994 • 97 citations

Investigating the Economic Role of Mergers

1998 • 89 citations

Do union wealth concessions explain takeover premiums?

1990 • 88 citations

Downstream Competition, Foreclosure, and Vertical Integration

2003 • 59 citations

Downstream Competition, Foreclosure, and Vertical Integration

2003 • 57 citations

Employee stock ownership and corporate control: An empirical study

1994 • 44 citations

Union organizing activity, firm growth and the business cycle

1993 • 34 citations

Rents and Quasi Rents in the Wage Structure: Evidence from Hostile Takeovers

1996 • 24 citations

Resolving Financial Distress By Way of a Contract: an Empirical Study of Small UK Companies

2000 • 24 citations

Comparative Financial Systems

1982 • 22 citations

A Theory of the Optimal Cost Barrier to Corporate Takeovers

1997 • 16 citations

The Role of ESOPs in Takeover Contests

1994 • 13 citations

Loyalty filters

1984 • 13 citations

Defensive Mechanisms and Managerial Discretion

1997 • 13 citations

Symposium on Public and Private Unionization

1988 • 9 citations

Grounded : Frank Lorenzo and the Destruction of Eastern Airlines

1990 • 7 citations

Takeovers and the dynamics of information flows

2004 • 6 citations