Taxes and venture capital support

European Finance Review

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 515-539

  Keuschnigg, Christian ^a   Nielsen, Soren Bo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b NONE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Capital gains taxation; Double moral hazard; Venture capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942686246     PISSN: 13826662     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/b:eufi.0000022144.17225.35     Document Type: Conference Paper

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