Financing Decisions along a Firm's Life-cycle: Debt as a Commitment Device

European Financial Management

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 898-927

  Hirsch, Julia ^a   Walz, Uwe ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD IBEROAMERICANA   (Mexico)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

D92; Financing decisions; Firm growth; G32; Life cycle; Path dependencies

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054725736     PISSN: 13547798     EISSN: 1468036X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-036X.2011.00618.x     Document Type: Article

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