Adair, Philippe; Adaskou, Mohamed - In: Cogent economics & finance 3 (2015) 1, pp. 1-11
We test the assumptions of trade-off theory (TOT) and pecking order theory (POT) regarding corporate leverage. The dependent variable being the debt ratio, we apply a linear model upon a balanced panel data-set of 2,370 French SMEs over the period 2002 - 2010. In accordance to TOT, trade credit...