Corporate Finance
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Stephen A. Ross
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Corporate Finance
Stephen A. Ross
Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Randolph W. Westerfield
Marshall School of Business
University of Southern California
Jeffrey Jaffe
Wharton School of Business
University of Pennsylvania
CORPORATE FINANCE
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Ross, Stephen A.
Corporate finance / Stephen A. Ross, Randolph W. Westerfield, Jeffrey Jaffe. -- 9th ed.
p. cm. -- (The McGraw-Hill/Irwin series in finance, insurance and real estate)
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1. Corporations—Finance. I. Westerfield, Randolph. II. Jaffe, Jeffrey F., 1946- III. Title.
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