Determinants of long-term debt issuing decisions: An alternative approach

Australian Journal of Management

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 429-439

  Zhu, Yushu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Capital structure; G32; H20; long term debt; spurious ratio problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880781929     PISSN: 03128962     EISSN: 13272020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0312896212461640     Document Type: Article

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