Market timing and the debt-equity choice

Journal of Financial Intermediation

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 175-197

  Elliott, William B ^a   Koëter Kant, Johanna ^b   Warr, Richard S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capital structure; Earnings based valuation; Market timing; Mispricing; Residual income model; Security choice

Indexed keywords

EID: 41349108018     PISSN: 10429573     EISSN: 10960473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfi.2007.05.002     Document Type: Article

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