Political motives of excess leverage in state-owned firms
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Keywords
excess leverage; state-owned firms; political motives; unemployment and economic pressure;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- G30 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - General
- G32 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
- G34 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Mergers; Acquisitions; Restructuring; Corporate Governance
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CFN-2022-04-25 (Corporate Finance)
- NEP-POL-2022-04-25 (Positive Political Economics)
- NEP-TRA-2022-04-25 (Transition Economics)
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