Financially constrained stock returns

Journal of Finance

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1827-1862

  Livdan, Dmitry ^a   Sapriza, Horacio ^b   Zhang, Lu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD   (United States)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

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EID: 68249147836     PISSN: 00221082     EISSN: 15406261     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2009.01481.x     Document Type: Article

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