Corporate Cash Holdings and Financial Crisis: An Empirical Study of Chinese Companies

Eurasian Business Review

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 112-124

  Lian, Yujun ^a   Sepehri, Mohamad ^b   Foley, Maggie ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JACKSONVILLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cash holdings; cash flow; China; financial crisis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879575224     PISSN: 13094297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14208/BF03353801     Document Type: Article

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