How do firms finance their investments?. The relative importance of equity issuance and debt contracting costs

Journal of Corporate Finance

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 179-195

  Gatchev, Vladimir A ^a   Spindt, Paul A ^b   Tarhan, Vefa ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Debt financing; Equity financing; Issue costs

Indexed keywords

EID: 59649104059     PISSN: 09291199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2008.11.001     Document Type: Article

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