Capital Structure Decisions: Which Factors Are Reliably Important?

  1. Murray Z. Frank1,
  2. Vidhan K. Goyal2

Article first published online: 28 APR 2009

DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-053X.2009.01026.x

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Financial Management

Financial Management

Volume 38, Issue 1, pages 1–37, Spring 2009

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Frank, M. Z. and Goyal, V. K. (2009), Capital Structure Decisions: Which Factors Are Reliably Important?. Financial Management, 38: 1–37. doi: 10.1111/j.1755-053X.2009.01026.x

Author Information

  1. 1

    Murray Z. Frank is the Piper Jaffray Professor of Finance at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN.

  2. 2

    Vidhan K. Goyal is a Professor of Finance at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

  1. We thank Werner Antweiler, the late Michael Barclay, Bill Christie (the Editor), Sudipto Dasgupta, John Graham, Keith Head, Kai Li, William Lim, Michael Lemmon, Ernst Maug, Vojislav Maksimovic, Ron Masulis, Jay Ritter, Sheridan Titman, Ivo Welch, Jeff Wurgler; seminar participants at Tulane University and Queen's University; participants at the 2004 American Finance Association Meetings and the 2004 NTU International Conference; and especially our anonymous referees for helpful comments. Murray Z. Frank thanks Piper Jaffray for financial support. Vidhan K. Goyal thanks the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (Project number: HKUST6489/06H) for financial support.

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  1. Issue published online: 28 APR 2009
  2. Article first published online: 28 APR 2009

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