The impact of firm and industry characteristics on small firms' capital structure

Small Business Economics

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 431-447

  Degryse, Hans ^a   de Goeij, Peter ^a   Kappert, Peter ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RABOBANK   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Capital structure; Industry effects; Panel data; Pecking order theory; SME; Trade off theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858080416     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-010-9281-8     Document Type: Article

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