Cash flows and leverage adjustments

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 632-646

  Faulkender, Michael ^a   Flannery, Mark J ^b   Hankins, Kristine Watson ^c   Smith, Jason M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjustment costs; G32; Leverage; Speed of adjustment; Target

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855486957     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2011.10.013     Document Type: Article

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