CEO ownership and discretionary investments

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 34, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 819-839

  Ghosh, Aloke ^a   Moon, Doocheol ^b   Tandon, Kishore ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Department of Innovation and Entrepreneurial Marketing   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Agency problems; Firm investments; Firm risk; Managerial risk aversion; Ownership structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547327785     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5957.2007.02011.x     Document Type: Article

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