This paper analyses the financing decisions of publicly traded companies in Turkey by estimating a dynamic capital structure model and using a panel of 227 industrial firms during the period 1990 to 2002. The approach adopted in this study allows for unobserved time-invariant firm heterogeneity...

This paper develops a structural equilibrium model with intertemporal macroeconomic risk, in-corporating the fact that ¯rms are heterogeneous in their asset composition. Compared to ¯rmswhich are mainly composed of invested assets, ¯rms with growth options have larger costs ofdebt because...