Bids {DGLMExtPois}

Bids Received by U.S. Firms

Description

A dataset with bids received by U.S. firms.

Usage

Bids

Format

A data frame with 126 rows and 13 variables:

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

Sanjiv Jaggia and Satish Thosar (1993) "Multiple Bids as a Consequence of Target Management Resistance", Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 3(4), pp. 447-457.

A. Colin Cameron and Per Johansson (1997) "Count Data Regression Models using Series Expansions: with Applications", Journal of Applied Econometrics, 12, pp. 203-223.