Investigating the Effect of Financial Constraints and Different Levels of Agency Cost on Investment Efficiency

Subject Areas : Financial Mathematics

Mahdi Agah ¹ , Hossein Malekpoor ² , Arman Bagheri ³

1 - Department of Management and Accounting, Farahan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Farahan, Iran
2 - Department of Economic Sciences, Faculty of Management and Economic, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Department of Financial Management, Faculty of Business Management, Qom University, Qom, Iran

Received: 2017-12-18 Accepted : 2017-12-18 Published : 2017-12-01

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