Capital Budgeting and Delegation

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 259-289

  Harris, Milton ^a   Raviv, Artur ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Budget rollovers; Capital budgeting; Delegation; G31

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000609955     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0304-405x(98)00038-5     Document Type: Article

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