Agency cost, top executives' overconfidence, and investment-cash flow sensitivity - Evidence from listed companies in China

Pacific Basin Finance Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 261-277

  Huang, Wei ^a   Jiang, Fuxiu ^b   Liu, Zhibiao ^c   Zhang, Min ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Renmin University of China   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Agency cost; CEO overconfidence; China; Investment cash flow sensitivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951955773     PISSN: 0927538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pacfin.2010.12.001     Document Type: Article

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