Contracts and exits in venture capital finance

Review of Financial Studies

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1947-1982

  Cumming, Douglas ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 52449132640     PISSN: 08939454     EISSN: 14657368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rfs/hhn072     Document Type: Article

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