How Different Is Japanese Corporate Finance? An Investigation of the Information Content of New Security Issues

Review of Financial Studies

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 109-139

  Kang, Jun Koo ^a   Stulz, René M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0347981294     PISSN: 08939454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rfs/9.1.109     Document Type: Article

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