Investment Distortions Caused by Debt Financing
Preprint
- 1 January 2000
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier BV in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
The presence of debt in a firm's capital structure may induce equity claimants to choose an investment policy that is not in the best interest of all claimants.Keywords
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