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Debt Financing

Debt Financing is a form of external capital acquisition in which an entity incurs a financial obligation to borrow funds, typically with interest and a specified repayment schedule, distinguishing it from equity financing by preserving ownership control while creating fixed contractual liabilities.

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Debt Finance

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Corporate financing and investment decisions when firms have information that investors do not have

Stewart C. Myers, Nicholas S. Majluf · Journal of Financial Economics · 1984 · 19.1K citations

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Determinants of corporate borrowing

Stewart C. Myers · Journal of Financial Economics · 1977 · 13.4K citations

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Legal Determinants of External Finance

Florencio López‐de‐Silanes, Andrei Shleifer, Robert W. Vishny · The Journal of Finance · 1997 · 10K citations · Full text

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Financial Intermediation and Delegated Monitoring

Douglas W. Diamond · The Review of Economic Studies · 1984 · 8.5K citations

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The Capital Structure Puzzle

Stewart C. Myers · The Journal of Finance · 1984 · 7.6K citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. PB
    Patrick Bolton

    Columbia University, United States

    14 publications · 4.2K citations

    12

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  2. MS
    Michael S. Weisbach

    National Bureau of Economic Research, United States

    12 publications · 1.5K citations

    12

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  3. IH
    Iftekhar Hasan

    Bank of Finland, Finland

    11 publications · 1.1K citations

    11

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  4. MC
    Mark Carey

    Federal Reserve Board of Governors, United States

    11 publications · 905 citations

    11

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  5. VM
    Vojislav Maksimovic

    University of Maryland, College Park, United States

    11 publications · 2.8K citations

    11

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Institutions

1.9K

  1. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Cambridge, United States

    67 h-index

    227 publications

    31.1K citations

  2. International Monetary Fund

    Washington D.C., United States

    40 h-index

    145 publications

    10.5K citations

  3. Centre for Economic Policy Research

    London, United Kingdom

    38 h-index

    108 publications

    6.2K citations

  4. European Corporate Governance Institute

    Brussels, Belgium

    36 h-index

    96 publications

    5.9K citations

  5. Federal Reserve Board of Governors

    Washington D.C., United States

    32 h-index

    89 publications

    5.8K citations

  6. New York University

    New York, United States

    32 h-index

    67 publications

    6.5K citations

  7. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    31 h-index

    55 publications

    21.9K citations

  8. Federal Reserve

    Washington D.C., United States

    31 h-index

    95 publications

    6.1K citations

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  1. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 590 publications · 28.1K citations

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  2. The Journal of Finance

    135 publications · 56K citations

    70

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  3. Journal of Financial Economics

    62 publications · 46.6K citations

    47

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  4. Review of Financial Studies

    57 publications · 14.3K citations

    45

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  5. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

    Repository · 127 publications · 5.8K citations

    38

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