Determinants of debt maturity structure across firm size

  1. González Méndez, Víctor Manuel
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Revista española de financiación y contabilidad

ISSN: 0210-2412

Year of publication: 2013

Issue: 158

Pages: 187-210

Type: Article

DOI: 10.1080/02102412.2013.10779745 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

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* Acknowledgments: I am grateful to Francisco González, Nuria Suárez and an anonymous referee for their helpful comments and suggestions. Financial support from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Spain (MCT)-ERDF, Project ECO2009-11758 is gratefully acknowledged. A previous version of this paper has been published as working paper no. 490/2009 of the working paper series of the Fundación de las Cajas de Ahorros (FUNCAS). ** Corresponding Author: Víctor M. González Méndez. Departamento Administración de Empresas, Universidad de Oviedo. Avda. del Cristo s/n, 33071 Oviedo. Tel.: + (34) 985102826. E-mail: vmendez@uniovi.es

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