The pecking order, debt capacity, and information asymmetry

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 332-355

  Leary, Mark T ^a   Roberts, Michael R ^b  

^a The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric information; Capital structure; Pecking order; Security issuance

Indexed keywords

EID: 75149173776     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2009.10.009     Document Type: Article

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