Cash holdings and R&D smoothing

Journal of Corporate Finance

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 694-709

  Brown, James R ^a   Petersen, Bruce C ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cash holdings; Investment smoothing; R D; Value of liquidity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954596331     PISSN: 09291199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2010.01.003     Document Type: Article

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