Seasoned equity offerings: What firms say, do, and how the market reacts

Journal of Corporate Finance

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 376-386

  Walker, Mark D ^a   Yost, Keven ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency costs; Capital structure; Seasoned equity offer

Indexed keywords

EID: 50049131075     PISSN: 09291199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2008.04.001     Document Type: Article

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