Why do investment euler equations fail?

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 479-488

  Whtied, Toni M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Financial constraints; Fixed costs; Generalized method of moments; Investment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032348287     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: 15372707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07350015.1998.10524787     Document Type: Article

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