Asset salability and debt maturity: Evidence from nineteenth-century American railroads

Review of Financial Studies

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1545-1584

  Benmelech, Efraim ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 61549116660     PISSN: 08939454     EISSN: 14657368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rfs/hhn036     Document Type: Article

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