Information asymmetry, monitoring, and the placement structure of corporate debt

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 407-434

  Krishnaswami, Sudha ^a   Spindt, Paul A ^b   Subramaniam, Venkat ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse selection; Capital structure; Debt financing; G30; G32; Monitoring; Moral hazard

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000927941     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0304-405x(98)00059-2     Document Type: Article

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