Uncertainty determinants of firm investment

Economics Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 282-287

  Baum, Christopher F ^a,b   Caglayan, Mustafa ^c   Talavera, Oleksandr ^b  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asymmetric information; Capital investment; CAPM; Financial frictions; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 39049173503     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2007.05.004     Document Type: Article

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