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Recommended reading and selected references

 

Alberts, W.W., and S.H. Archer, "Some Evidence on the Effects of Company Size on the Cost of Equity Capital", Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 8, March 1973, pages 229-245.

Altman, Edward I., "Financial Ratios, Discriminant Analysis, and the Prediction of Bankruptcy", Journal of Finance 22, September 1968, pages 589-609.

Altman, Edward I., Robert Haldeman and P. Narayanan, "ZETA Analysis: A New Model for Identifying Bankruptcy Risk", Journal of Banking and Finance 1, June 1977, pages 29-54.

Altman, Edward I., "Corporate financial distress and bankruptcy : a complete guide to predicting & avoiding distress and profiting from bankruptcy", New York : Wiley, c1993.

Banks. Erik, "The credit risk of financial instruments", Basingstoke, Hants, England: Macmillan, 1993

Barges, Alexander, "The Effect of Capital Structure on the Cost of Capital", Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1963.

Baxter, Nevins D., " Leverage, Risk of Ruin and the Cost of Capital", Journal of Finance 30, September 1967, pages 395-404.

Berenek, William, "The Weighted Average Cost of Capital and Shareholder Wealth Maximixation", Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 12, March 1977, pages 17-32.

Beaver, William H., "Financial Ratios as Predictors of Failure", in Empirical Research in Accounting, Selected Studies, Journal of Accounting Research 4, 1966, pages 71-127.

Borio, C.E.V., "Leverage and financing of non-financial companies : an international perspective", Basle : Bank for International Settlements, Monetary and Economic Dept., 1990.

Bowen, R.M., L.A. Daley and C.C. Huber, "Evidence on the Existence and Determinants of Inter-Industry Differences in Leverage", Financial Management, Winter 1982, pages 10-20.

Caks, John, "Corporate Debt Decision: A New Analytical Framework", Journal of Finance 33, December 1978, pages 1297-1315.

Chew, Lillian., "Managing derivative risks : the use and abuse of leverage", Chichester ; New York : Wiley, 1996.

Gordon, Myron J., and Clarence C.Y. Kwan, "Debt Maturity, Default Risk and Capital Structure", Journal of Banking and Finance 3, December 1979, pages 313-329.

Haugen, Robert A., and Dean W. Wichern, "The Intricate Relationship between Financial Leverage and the Stability of Stock Prices", Journal of Finance 30, December 1975, pages 1283-1292.

Hickman, W.B., "Corporate Bond Quality and Investor Experience", Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1958.

Katz, Ian D., "Managing financial risk", London : Euromoney Publications, c1991-

Lee, Wayne Y., and Henry H. Barker, "Bankruptcy Costs and the Firm's Optimal Debt Capacity: A Positive Theory of Capital Structure", Southern Economic Journal 43, April 1977, pages 1453-1465.

Lerner, Eugene M., and Willard Carleton T., "A Theory of Financial Analysis", Hartcourt Brace and World, New York, 1966.

Mumey, Glen A., "Theory of Financial Structure", Holt Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1969.

Petry, Glenn H., "Empirical Evidence on Cost of Capital Weights", Financial Management 4, Winter 1975, pages 58-65.

Porterfield, James T., "Investment Decisions and Capital Costs", Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1965.

Robichek, Alexander A., and John G. McDonald, "The Cost of Capital: Potential Use and Misuse", Finance Executive 33, June 1965, pages 2-8.

Schwartz, Eli, "Theory of the Capital Structure of the Firm", Journal of Finance 14, march 1959, pages 18-39.

Smith, Clifford W. Jr., Charles W. Smithson, and D. Sykes Wilford, "Managing financial risk", New York : Harper & Row, Ballinger Division, c1990.

Smithson, Charles W., "Managing financial risk : a guide to derivative products, financial engineering, and value Maximization", New York : McGraw-Hill, c1998.

Tomkins, Cyril, "Corporate resource allocation : financial, strategic and organizational perspectives", Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass., USA : B. Blackwell, 1991

Vickers, Douglas, "The Cost of Capital and the Structure of the Firm", Journal of Finance 25, March 1970, pages 35-46.

Wijst, D. van der, "Financial structure in small business : theory, tests and applications", Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, c1989.

Wippern, Ronald F., "Financial Structure and the Value of the Firm", Journal of Finance 21, December 1966, pages 615-634.

Wunnicke, Diane B., David R. Wilson and Brooke Wunnicke, "Corporate financial risk management : practical techniques of financial engineering", New York : Wiley, c1992.

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