Dividend policy, creditor rights, and the agency costs of debt

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 276-299

  Brockman, Paul ^a   Unlu, Emre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency costs; Creditor rights; Dividend policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 64849100310     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2008.03.007     Document Type: Article

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