Determinants of capital structure in Irish SMEs

Small Business Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 357-375

  mac an Bhaird, Ciarán ^a   Lucey, Brian ^b  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Capital structure; SME; Zellner's SUR model

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956690053     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-008-9162-6     Document Type: Article

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