Creditor rights and corporate risk-taking

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 150-166

  Acharya, Viral V ^a,b,c,d   Amihud, Yakov ^a   Litov, Lubomir ^e  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^c European Corporate Governance Institute   (Belgium)

^d NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bankruptcy code; Corporate reorganization; Diversification; Investment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860389511     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2011.04.001     Document Type: Article

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