Capital markets and firm organization: How financial development shapes European corporate groups

Management Science

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1326-1343

  Belenzon, Sharon ^a   Berkovitz, Tomer ^b   A Rios, Luis ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate groups; Financial development; Internal capital markets

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL MARKETS; CAPITAL-INTENSIVE INDUSTRY; CORPORATE GROUPS; DEVELOPED ECONOMIES; EXTERNAL MARKET; FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT; FINANCIAL MARKET; FIRM ORGANIZATION;

FINANCE; INDUSTRY;

COMMERCE;

EID: 84878980825     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1120.1655     Document Type: Article

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