de La Bruslerie, Hubert; Latrous, Imen - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
Debt may help to manage type II corporate agency conflicts because it is easier for controlling shareholders to modify … period 1998-2009 is empirically tested. It supports an inverted U-shape relationship between shareholders' ownership and … leverage. At low levels of ownership, controlling shareholders use more debt in order to inflate their stake in capital and to …