Behavioral Corporate Finance

Handbook of Empirical Corporate Finance SET

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 145-186

  Baker, Malcolm ^a   Ruback, Richard S ^a   Wurgler, Jeffrey ^b  

^a NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53265-7.50018-4     Document Type: Chapter

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