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Testing trade-off theory and pecking order theory under managerial overconfidence

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|Jun 2019

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijme-2019-0008 | Journal eISSN: 2543-5361 | Journal ISSN: 2299-9701
Language: English
Page range: 99 - 117
Submitted on: Jun 13, 2018
Accepted on: Jun 2, 2019
Published on: Jun 30, 2019
Published by: Warsaw School of Economics
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