Determinants of the floating-to-fixed rate debt structure of firms

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 755-786

  Chava, Sudheer ^a   Purnanandam, Amiyatosh ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Derivatives; Floating to fixed rate debt structure; Managerial incentives; Monitoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547682156     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2006.06.004     Document Type: Article

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