Capital Structure Adjustment in Brazilian Family Firms

We examine the extent to which family companies are different from non-family companies in their leverage ratios and their capital structure adjustment. By applying a dynamic trade-off model to a sample of Brazilian companies for 2003-2013, we show that family companies have higher leverage and slow...

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Main Authors: Eduardo K. Kayo, Eduardo Ottoboni Brunaldi, Dante M. Aldrighi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Administração (ANPAD) 2018-01-01
Series:RAC: Revista de Administração Contemporânea
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/pdf/rac/v22n1/1982-7849-rac-22-01-0092.pdf