The distributional properties of the debt to equity ratio: Some implications for empirical research

Abacus

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 111-135

  Ataullah, Ali ^a   Higson, Andrew ^a   Tippett, Mark ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cram r von Mises statistic; Debt to equity ratio; Moments; Probability density function

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249043566     PISSN: 00013072     EISSN: 14676281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6281.2007.00222.x     Document Type: Article

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