Information asymmetry and capital structure around the world

Pacific Basin Finance Journal

Volumn 32, Issue , 2015, Pages 131-159

  Gao, Wenlian ^a   Zhu, Feifei ^b  

^a CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^b Radford University   (China)

Author keywords

Capital structure; Cost of capital; Country characteristics; IFRS; Information asymmetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939963784     PISSN: 0927538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pacfin.2015.01.005     Document Type: Article

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