Financing and Advising: Optimal Financial Contracts with Venture Capitalists

Journal of Finance

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2059-2086

  Casamatta, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

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EID: 0142157063     PISSN: 00221082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1540-6261.00597     Document Type: Review

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