'Hot' debt markets and capital structure

European Financial Management

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 46-99

  Doukas, John A ^a,d   Guo, Jie Michael ^b   Zhou, Bilei ^c  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

capital structure; G12; G14; G31; G32; hot debt markets; information asymmetry; market timing

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650651016     PISSN: 13547798     EISSN: 1468036X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-036X.2010.00549.x     Document Type: Article

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