"you can enter but you cannot leave...": U.S. securities markets and foreign firms

Journal of Finance

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2477-2506

  Marosi, András ^a   Massoud, Nadia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 51849168228     PISSN: 00221082     EISSN: 15406261     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2008.01402.x     Document Type: Article

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