Why does capital structure choice vary with macroeconomic conditions?

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1545-1564

  Levy, Amnon ^a   Hennessy, Christopher ^b  

^a MKMV   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Business cycles; Financial structure; Financing constraints; Investment

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547676689     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2006.04.005     Document Type: Article

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