Historical market-to-book in a partial adjustment model of leverage

Journal of Corporate Finance

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 602-612

  Liu, Laura Xiaolei ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Capital structure; Market timing; Partial adjustment; Target capital structure; Trade off theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349876842     PISSN: 09291199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2009.07.003     Document Type: Article

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