Investment reluctance: Irreversibility or imperfect capital markets?

European Review of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 51-76

  Huttel, Silke ^a   Mußhoff, Oliver ^b   Odening, Martin ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capital market imperfections; Irreversibility; Q model; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949288131     PISSN: 01651587     EISSN: 14643618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/erae/jbp046     Document Type: Article

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