The determinants of debt maturity structure: Evidence from France, Germany and the UK

European Financial Management

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 161-194

  Antoniou, Antonios ^a   Guney, Yilmaz ^b   Paudyal, Krishna ^a,c  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamic debt maturity structure; Panel data; System GMM

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247862236     PISSN: 13547798     EISSN: 1468036X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1354-7798.2006.00315.x     Document Type: Article

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