The financial structure of private held Belgian firms

Small Business Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 301-313

  Heyman, Dries ^a   Deloof, Marc ^b   Ooghe, Hubert ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Capital structure; Debt maturity; Privately held firms; Small firms

Indexed keywords

EID: 39149108778     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-006-9031-0     Document Type: Article

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