Investment-cash flow sensitivities or cash-cash flow sensitivities? An evaluative framework for measures of financial constraints

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 35, Issue 7-8, 2008, Pages 943-968

  D'Espallier, Bert ^a,b   Vandemaele, Sigrid ^a   Peeters, Ludo ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b NONE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Corporate finance; Entropy econometrics; Financial constraints; Slope heterogeneity; Small business finance

Indexed keywords

EID: 54749109913     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5957.2008.02101.x     Document Type: Article

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