An alternative test of the trade-off theory of capital structure

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the stochastic behavior of corporate debt ratios utilizing a balanced panel of 2,556 publicly traded U.S. firms during the period 1997-2010. We partition the panel into ten economic sectors and perform panel unit root tests on each sector employing book v...

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Main Authors: Giorgio Canarella, Mahmoud Nourayi, Michael J. Sullivan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw 2014-12-01
Series:Contemporary Economics
Online Access:http://ce.vizja.pl/en/download-pdf/id/378