The determinants of debt maturity in Australian firms

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 313-341

  Alcock, Jamie ^a,b   Finn, Frank ^c   Tan, Kelvin Jui Keng ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Capital structure; Debt maturity; Leverage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859952211     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629X.2010.00397.x     Document Type: Article

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