The benefits and costs of deeply-discounted rights issues - Practitioners viewpoints

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 369-372

  Burton, Bruce ^a   Helliar, Christine ^a   Power, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL MARKET; INVESTMENT; MARKET CONDITIONS; STOCK MARKET;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 2542437752     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1350485042000228213     Document Type: Article

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