Venture capital contracting under asymmetric information

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 22, Issue 6-8, 1998, Pages 675-699

  Trester, Jeffrey J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate finance; D4; D8; Debt; Entrepreneurship; G2; G3; L2; Preferred stock; Venture capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000402890     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4266(98)00013-2     Document Type: Article

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