Corporate political donations: Investment or agency?

Business and Politics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Aggarwal, Rajesh K ^a   Meschke, Felix ^b   Wang, Tracy Yue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency problems; Political contributions; Stock returns

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863769915     PISSN: 13695258     EISSN: 14693569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/1469-3569.1391     Document Type: Article

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