How does financial distress affect small firms' financial structure?

Small Business Economics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 377-391

  Pindado, Julio ^a   Rodrigues, Luis ^b   De La Torre, Chabela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b Escola Superior de Tecnologia   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Adjustment model; Financial distress; Financial structure; Panel data

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744537247     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-005-4845-8     Document Type: Article

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