Option Exercise Games: An Application to the Equilibrium Investment Strategies of Firms

Review of Financial Studies

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 691-721

  Grenadier, Steven R ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0036286965     PISSN: 08939454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rfs/15.3.691     Document Type: Article

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