Capital structure with countervailing incentives

RAND Journal of Economics

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-24

  Spiegel, Yossef ^a   Spulber, Daniel F ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0031475953     PISSN: 07416261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2555937     Document Type: Article

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