The effect of venture capital financing on the sensitivity to cash flow of firm's investments

European Financial Management

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 528-551

  Bertoni, Fabio ^a   Colombo, Massimo G ^a   Croce, Annalisa ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Corporate venture capital; Financial constraints; Investments; New technology based firms; Venture capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955960675     PISSN: 13547798     EISSN: 1468036X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-036X.2008.00463.x     Document Type: Article

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