Individual political contributions and firm performance

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 367-392

  Ovtchinnikov, Alexei V ^a   Pantaleoni, Eva ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Firm performance; Firm value; Political contributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861933426     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2012.03.007     Document Type: Article

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