The firm's leverage-cash flow relationship

Journal of Empirical Finance

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 307-331

  Shenoy, Catherine ^a   Koch, Paul D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency theory; Capital structure policy; Dividend policy; Free cash flow hypothesis; Signalling theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030076379     PISSN: 09275398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0927-5398(95)00011-9     Document Type: Article

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