New ventures often require debt financing but face difficulties convincing lenders of their creditworthiness because of agency problems. Researchers have shown that social capital can help small firms reduce lenders' agency concerns but new ventures do not yet have their own social capital. We...

We discuss implementation problems and test approaches for using the full-information approach for estimating divisional betas. For both full-information and pure-play estimates, variations using capital structure adjusted betas perform better than those with raw betas, and those with betas...