Earnouts: A study of financial contracting in acquisition agreements
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Earnouts; Acquisitions; Contingent payments; Moral hazard; Valuation uncertainty; SFAS 141(R);All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- G34 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Mergers; Acquisitions; Restructuring; Corporate Governance
- D86 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Economics of Contract Law
- M41 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Accounting - - - Accounting
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