Examining pecking order versus trade-off theories of capital structure: New evidence from Japanese firms

This study empirically tests the traditional trade‐off model against the pecking order model of capital structure using data from the Japanese listed companies on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. A pooled sample of 1,362 publicly listed nonfinancial companies from 1991 to 2015 is used to establish the rela...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Salim, Ruhul, Jarallah, S., Saleh, A.
Format: Journal Article
Published: John Wiley and Sons 2018
Online Access:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijfe.1657
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/71714