Market structure and financial leverage: does market power affect debt and equity decisions?

An attempt is made to determine whether the choice of financial leverage by a firm is influenced by the market structure of its industry. Financial data on the firms from industries for which a meaningful measure of the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) is available were collected from the COMPUSTAT...

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Published in:Akron business and economic review 1990-07, Vol.21 (2), p.69
Main Authors: Kare, Dilip D, Price, Donald I
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Corporations
Debt
Effects
Equity
Finance
Financial leverage
Hypotheses
Leverage (Finance)
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Ratio analysis
Regression analysis
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Regression analysis
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