Pecking order and trade-off explanations of capital structure and the maturity structure of corporate debt obligations

It is shown i) that the under-investment problem is caused by the debt-equity mix of the financing rather than the investment itself and that a transfer of value (from shareholders to debt-holders) can be reversed by a post-investment adjustment in capital structure that restores the pre-investment...

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Main Author: Richards, Paul Howard
Published: University of Birmingham 2018
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.760321