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Bids Received By U.S. Firms
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Description
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a cross-section

*number of observations* : 126

*observation* : production units

*country* : United States

Usage
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::

    data(Bids)

Format
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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
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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 <http://cameron.econ.ucdavis.edu/racd/racddata.html>`_,
chapter 5.

Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive :
`http://jae.wiley.com/jae/ <http://jae.wiley.com/jae/>`_.

See Also
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``Index.Source``, ``Index.Economics``, ``Index.Econometrics``,
``Index.Observations``
