Closed-end versus open-end: The choice of organizational form

Journal of Corporate Finance

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-27

  Deli, Daniel N ^a   Varma, Raj ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Closed end fund; Mutual fund; Open end fund; Organizational form

Indexed keywords

EID: 10344232031     PISSN: 09291199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0929-1199(01)00038-4     Document Type: Article

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