Dynamic security design: Convergence to continuous time and asset pricing implications

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 345-390

  Biais, Bruno ^a   Mariotti, Thomas ^a   Plantin, Guillaume ^b   Rochet, Jean Charles ^c  

^a TOULOUSE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (France)

^b LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE; ENTREPRENEUR; FINANCE; LIABILITY; PRICING POLICY; STOCK MARKET;

EID: 33947627035     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-937X.2007.00425.x     Document Type: Article

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