Canarella, Giorgio; Nourayi, Mahmoud; Sullivan, Michael J. - In: Contemporary economics 8 (2014) 4, pp. 365-386
-generation panel unit root tests provide consistent evidence that debt ratios are mean reverting, which supports the trade-off theory …The purpose of this paper is to investigate the stochastic behavior of corporate debt ratios utilizing a balanced panel … of 2,556 publicly traded US firms during the period 1997 - 2010. We partition the panel into ten economic sectors and …