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Information Asymmetry and Financing Decisions†

  1. WOLFGANG BESSLER1,
  2. WOLFGANG DROBETZ2,
  3. MATTHIAS C. GRÜNINGER3

Article first published online: 2 MAR 2011

DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2443.2010.01122.x

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International Review of Finance

International Review of Finance

Special Issue: FINANCING AND CAPITAL STRUCTURE: PART I

Volume 11, Issue 1, pages 123–154, March 2011

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BESSLER, W., DROBETZ, W. and GRÜNINGER, M. C. (2011), Information Asymmetry and Financing Decisions. International Review of Finance, 11: 123–154. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2443.2010.01122.x

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  1. 1

    Center for Finance and Banking, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

  2. 2

    Institute of Finance, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

  3. 3

    Department of Corporate Finance, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

*Wolfgang Drobetz Institute of Finance University of Hamburg Von-Melle-Park 5 20146 Hamburg Germany wolfgang.drobetz@wiso.uni-hamburg.de

  1. †

    *We thank an anonymous referee, Daniel Höchle, Dusan Isakov, Iwan Meier, Vefa Tarhan, Heinz Zimmermann, Sudipto Dasgupta (the editor) as well as participants at the 2009 Midwest Finance Association (MFA) Meeting in Chicago, the 2009 European Financial Management Association (EFMA) Meeting in Milan, the 2009 Northern Finance Association (NFA) Meeting in Niagara-on-the-Lake, and the 2009 Financial Management Association (FMA) Meeting in Reno for comments.

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