Accounting and non-accounting based information in the market for debt: Evidence from Australian private debt contracts

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 197-221

  Ramsay, Ian ^a   Sidhu, Baljit K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Covenants; Private debt agreements

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038705580     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-629X.00010     Document Type: Article

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