An Empirical Investigation on the Determinants of the Capital Structure of US Listed Firms

This paper is an empirical investigation of capital structure behaviour of 419 US firms. One of the aims is to evaluate which theory, trade-off theory or pecking order hypothesis, is better explaining the capital structure of selected firms. Moreover, this paper uses data that offers the unique oppo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: SHILIANG, LU
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/23379/