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The Capital Structure Puzzle

The Journal of Finance · 1984 · Vol. 39(3) · pp. 575–575

Stewart C. Myers✉(National Bureau of Economic Research)

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Stewart C. Myers, The Capital Structure Puzzle, The Journal of Finance, Vol. 39, No. 3, Papers and Proceedings, Forty-Second Annual Meeting, American Finance Association, San Francisco, CA, December 28-30, 1983 (Jul., 1984), pp. 575-592

Corporate Finance and Governance Economic theories and models Financial Reporting and Valuation ResearchEconomicsCapital structureMonetary economicsMacroeconomics

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