Lease financing and corporate governance

Financial Review

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 403-437

  Robicheaux, Sara H ^a   Fu, Xudong ^b   Ligon, James A ^b  

^a BIRMINGHAM SOUTHERN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Debt structure; Leasing

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649458257     PISSN: 07328516     EISSN: 15406288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6288.2008.00200.x     Document Type: Article

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