The investment opportunity set: Determinants, consequences and measurement

Managerial Finance

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 3-15

  Kallapur, Sanjay ^a   Trombley, Mark A ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accounting research; Business policy; Investment; Measurement; Share prices

Indexed keywords

EID: 51649083180     PISSN: 03074358     EISSN: 17587743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03074350110767060     Document Type: Article

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