Trade-off model of debt maturity structure

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 5-34

  Jun, Sang Gyung ^a   Jen, Frank C ^b  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency cost; Debt maturity; Financial flexibility; Financial strength; Financing decision

Indexed keywords

EID: 20444365200     PISSN: 0924865X     EISSN: 15737179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022190205033     Document Type: Article

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