The price of a CEO's rolodex

Review of Financial Studies

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 79-114

  Engelberg, Joseph ^a   Gao, Pengjie ^b   Parsons, Christopher A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

G30; G34; G35

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871227962     PISSN: 08939454     EISSN: 14657368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rfs/hhs114     Document Type: Article

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