Corporate investment and financing under asymmetric information

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 262-288

  Morellec, Erwan ^a   Schürhoff, Norman ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Asymmetric information; Corporate investment; Endogenous financing constraints; Financing decisions; Real options

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650305585     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2010.09.003     Document Type: Article

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