Multinationals do it better: Evidence on the efficiency of corporations' capital budgeting

Journal of Empirical Finance

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 703-720

  Greene, William H ^a   Hornstein, Abigail S ^b   White, Lawrence J ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capital budgeting; Marginal q; Multinational enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349807875     PISSN: 09275398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jempfin.2009.07.004     Document Type: Article

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