How costly is financial (not economic) distress? Evidence from highly leveraged transactions that became distressed

Journal of Finance

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1443-1493

  Andrade, Gregor ^a   Kaplan, Steven N ^a  

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EID: 0038465465     PISSN: 00221082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0022-1082.00062     Document Type: Article

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