Security market timing and effects of credit rating and corporate governance on capital structure of UK firms

This thesis investigates into the capital structure of public companies in the UK. It consists of two empirical chapters. The first chapter extends market timing theory of capital structure as first proposed by Baker and Wurgler (2002) by looking at the effects of several market timing variables on...

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Main Author: Qian, Xin
Published: University of Birmingham 2014
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.629738