Taxation and capital structure choice-Evidence from a panel of German multinationals

Economics Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 309-311

  Buettner, Thiess ^a,b   Overesch, Michael ^c   Schreiber, Ulrich ^c,d   Wamser, Georg ^a  

^a IFO INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c ZEW ^*  (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capital structure; Corporate income tax; Firm level data; Internal debt; Multinationals

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350394838     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2009.09.001     Document Type: Article

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