Leverage and debt maturity choices by undiversified owner-managers

Journal of Corporate Finance

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 888-913

  Fu, Richard ^a   Subramanian, Ajay ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency conflicts; Debt maturity; Leverage; Owner managers

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957479818     PISSN: 09291199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2011.04.001     Document Type: Article

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