Many firms have devised defenses that make it more difficult or costly for other firms to take

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Many firms have devised defenses that make it more difficult or costly for other firms to take them over. How might such defenses affect the firm’s agency problems? Are managers of firms with formidable takeover defenses more or less likely to act in the shareholders’ interests rather than their own? What would you expect to happen to the share price when management proposes to institute such defenses?

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Principles of Corporate Finance

ISBN: 978-0077404895

10th Edition

Authors: Richard A. Brealey, Stewart C. Myers, Franklin Allen

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