The determinants of debt maturity: The case of bank financing in Singapore

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 341-350

  Chen, S S ^a   Ho, Kim Wai ^b   Yeo, Gillian H H ^b  

^a YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bank debt; Contract cost hypothesis; Maturity; Signaling hypothesis; Tax hypothesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 53149150260     PISSN: 0924865X     EISSN: 15737179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008398308408     Document Type: Article

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