Investment policy, internal financing and ownership concentration in the UK

Journal of Corporate Finance

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 257-284

  Goergen, Marc ^a   Renneboog, Luc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Control; Corporate governance; G32; G34; Investment; Liquidity constraints; Ownership

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042406845     PISSN: 09291199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0929-1199(01)00022-0     Document Type: Article

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