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What do we know about capital structure? Revisiting the impact of debt ratios on some firm-specific factors

E. C. Charalambakis Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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D. Psychoyios Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; Department of Industrial Management, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, GR 185 34, GreeceCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 1727-1742 | Published online: 11 May 2012

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