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An application of logit analysis to prediction of merger targets

Abstract Logit estimation is applied to predicting the probability that a given firm will be a merger target. Care is taken to account for variation in industry characteristics. The statistical performance of the model and its predictive power in a holdout sample support the approach used.

Eric Sorensen | J. Dietrich | E. Sorensen | J. Kimball Dietrich | J.Kimball Dietrich

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