Options on leveraged equity: Theory and empirical tests

Journal of Finance

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1151-1180

  Toft, Klaus Bjerre ^b   Prucyk, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0039054668     PISSN: 00221082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2329519     Document Type: Article

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