Internal capital markets and capital structure: Bank versus internal debt

European Financial Management

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 345-373

  Dewaelheyns, Nico ^a,b   Van Hulle, Cynthia ^b  

^a Lessius University College   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bank debt; Capital structure; Debt source concentration; Internal capital markets; Ownership structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954110444     PISSN: 13547798     EISSN: 1468036X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-036X.2008.00457.x     Document Type: Article

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