Capital Structure Choices and Behavioral Biases: An Application to a Panel of US Industrial Companies
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Capital Structure; Optimism; Overconfidence; Market Timing; Pecking Order;All these keywords.
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- G32 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
- C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
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