Dennis E. Logue, The Usefulness of the Wind-Up Measure of Pension Liabilities: A Labor Market Perspective: Discussion, The Journal of Finance, Vol. 40, No. 3, Papers and Proceedings of the Forty-Third Annual Meeting American Finance Association, Dallas, Texas, December 28-30, 1984 (Jul., 1985), pp. 940-942

Carl Icahn, Irwin Jacobs, Carl Lindner, David Murdock, Victor Posner, and the late Charles Bluhdorn are usually portrayed as corporate ‘raiders’. The evidence here, however, shows that between 1977 and 1982 when it was first announced that they had purchased stock in a given firm, stock prices on average increased significantly. The investors' activities in target firms for the two years following the initial stock purchase are likewise inconsistent with ‘raiding’. We discuss two hypotheses that are consistent with the evidence: first, these investors improve the management of target firms; second, they are systematically able to identify under-priced stocks.

Reviews the book "Intermediate Accounting," by Lanny G. Chasteen, Richard E. Flaherty and Melvin C. O'Connor.

Dennis L. Hoffman and, Don E. Schlagenhauf, Real Interest Rates, Anticipated Inflation, and Unanticipated Money: A Multi-Country Study, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 67, No. 2 (May, 1985), pp. 284-296

Reviews the book "Accounting Information Systems," by John F. Nash and Martin B. Roberts.