Reconciling divergent findings on the speed of leverage adjustment

Estimates of firms’ speeds of leverage adjustment (SOAs) vary wildly. Studies producing these estimates impose a strong constraint: An average SOAis estimated for all firms in a sample. Using finite mixture models (FMM) we uncover four distinct types of behaviors characteri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Khoo, Joye, Durand, Robert B., Harris, Mark N.
Format: Conference Paper
Published: 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/77317