Private family ownership and the agency costs of debt

Family Business Review

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 333-346

  Steijvers, Tensie ^a   Voordeckers, Wim ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Agency costs of debt; Collateral; Interest rate; Private family firms

Indexed keywords

EID: 70749117538     PISSN: 08944865     EISSN: 17416248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894486509338291     Document Type: Article

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