Cash savings and stock price informativeness

Review of Finance

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 985-1012

  Fresard, Laurent ^a  

^a HEC PARIS   (France)

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EID: 84866618317     PISSN: 15723097     EISSN: 1573692X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rof/rfr004     Document Type: Article

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