Corporate financing decisions: UK survey evidence

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 33, Issue 9-10, 2006, Pages 1402-1434

  Beattie, Vivien ^a   Goodacre, Alan ^b   Thomson, Sarah Jane ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^c HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agency theory; Capital structure; Institutional differences; Pecking order theory; Survey; Trade off theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845393615     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5957.2006.00640.x     Document Type: Article

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