Excess cash holdings and shareholder value

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 549-574

  Lee, Edward ^a   Powell, Ronan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

G14; G34; Marginal value of cash; Persistence; Stock performance; Trade off; Transactions cost

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955573869     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629X.2010.00359.x     Document Type: Article

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