Progressive taxation and corporate liquidation policies with mean-reverting earnings

Economic Modelling

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 730-736

  Chu, Kai Cheung ^a   Wong, Kit Pong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Liquidation policies; Mean reversion; Progressive taxation; Real options

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649185720     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2010.01.013     Document Type: Article

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