Capital Structure Decisions During a Firm's Life Cycle

Small Business Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 107-130

  la Rocca, Maurizio L ^a   la Rocca, Tiziana L ^a   Cariola, Alfio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Capital structure; Financial growth cycle; Financing decisions; Small and medium sized firms; Source of finance

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958081638     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-009-9229-z     Document Type: Article

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