Corporate investment with financial constraints: Sensitivity of investment to funds from voluntary asset sales

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 357-374

  Hovakimian, Gayané ^a   Titman, Sheridan ^b  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Asset sales; Financial constraints; Investment cash flow sensitivity; Switching regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645775670     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/mcb.2006.0034     Document Type: Review

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