Cash holdings and credit risk

Review of Financial Studies

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3572-3609

  Acharya, Viral ^a   Davydenko, Sergei A ^b   Strebulaev, Ilya A ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84869453280     PISSN: 08939454     EISSN: 14657368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rfs/hhs106     Document Type: Article

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