Risk shifting through nonfinancial contracts: Effects on loan spreads and capital structure of project finance deals

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1295-1320

  Corielli, Francesco ^a   Gatti, Stefano ^a   Steffanoni, Alessandro ^b  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b Meliorbanca ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Capital structure; Contractual arrangements; Loan pricing; Long term contracts; Project finance

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956439731     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: 15384616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4616.2010.00342.x     Document Type: Article

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