Company financial structure: A survey and implications for developing economies

Finance and Development: Surveys of Theory, Evidence and Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 356-429

  Prasad, Sanjiva ^a   Green, Christopher J ^b   Murinde, Victor ^c  

^a Inland Revenue UK ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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