Debt overhang, costly expandability and reversibility, and optimal financial structure

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 31, Issue 7-8, 2004, Pages 1191-1222

  Jou, Jyh Bang ^a   Lee, Tan ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bankruptcy costs; Debt overhang; Expandability; Financial structure; Reversibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547326862     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0306-686X.2004.00572.x     Document Type: Article

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