Debt financing: Does it boost or hurt firm performance in product markets?

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 135-172

  Campello, Murillo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Capital structure; Endogeneity; GMM; Industry concentration; Product market competition

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748149035     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2005.04.001     Document Type: Article

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