Corporate capital structures in the United States
By: edited by Benjamin M. Friedman.
Contributors: Friedman, Benjamin M.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: A National Bureau of Economic Research project report
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
Subjects: Corporations -- United States -- Finance.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Papers presented at a conference held at Palm Beach, Fla., Jan. 6-7, 1983, sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Table of contents: title: Secular patterns in the financing of U.S. corporations / Robert A. Taggart, Jr.; title: Changes in the balance sheet of the U.S. manufacturing sector, 1926-1977 / John H. Ciccolo, Jr. and Christopher F. Baum; title: Debt and equity yields, 1926-1980 / Patric H. Hendershott and Roger D. Huang; title: Inflation and the role of bonds in investor portfolios / Zvi Bodie, Alex Kane, and Robert McDonald; title: The substitutability of debt and equity securities / Benjamin M. Friedman; title: Contingent claims valuation of corporate liabilities / E. Philip Jones, Scott P. Mason, and Eric Rosenfeld; title: Capital structure change and decreases in stockholders' wealth / Wayne H. Mikkelson; title: Real determinants of corporate leverage / Alan J. Auerbach; title: Investment patterns and financial leverage / Michael S. Long and Ileen B. Malitz; title: Capital structure and the corporation's product market environment / A. Michael Spence.