Firm- and country-level determinants of corporate leverage: Some new international evidence

Journal of Corporate Finance

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1457-1474

  Gungoraydinoglu, Ali ^a   Öztekin, Özde ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic capital structure; Institutions; International; Pecking order; Trade off

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053172506     PISSN: 09291199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2011.08.004     Document Type: Article

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