Corporate investment and stock market listing: A puzzle?

Review of Financial Studies

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 342-390

  Asker, John ^a   Farre Mensa, Joan ^b   Ljungqvist, Alexander ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

D22; D92; G31; G32; G34

Indexed keywords

EID: 84988273295     PISSN: 08939454     EISSN: 14657368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rfs/hhu077     Document Type: Article

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