Managerial incentives and corporate leverage: Evidence from the United Kingdom

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 531-553

  Florackis, Chrisostomos ^a   Ozkan, Aydin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capital structure; Corporate governance mechanisms; Managerial incentives

Indexed keywords

EID: 69249120890     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629X.2009.00296.x     Document Type: Article

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