References

• 2002Market Timing and Capital Structure3,804 cited
• 1985Dividend Policy under Asymmetric Information3,459 cited
• 2002Testing Trade-Off and Pecking Order Predictions About Dividends and Debt3,396 cited
• 2007Capital Structure Decisions: Which Factors Are Reliably Important?2,853 cited
• 1979Imperfect Information, Dividend Policy, and "The Bird in the Hand" Fallacy2,809 cited
• 2002Testing the pecking order theory of capital structure2,642 cited
• 2008Back to the Beginning: Persistence and the Cross‐Section of Corporate Capital Structure1,846 cited
• 1999Testing static tradeoff against pecking order models of capital structure1This paper has benefited from comments by seminar participants at Boston College, Boston Unsiversity, Dartmouth College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Massachusetts, Ohio State University, University of California at Los Angeles and the NBER, especially Eugene Fama and Robert Gertner. The usual disclaimers apply. Funding from MIT and the Tuck School at Dartmouth College is gratefuly acknowledged. We also thank two reviewers, Richard S. Ruback and Clifford W. Smith, Jr., for helpful comments.11,755 cited
• 2006Corporate Financial Policy and the Value of Cash1,642 cited
• 2005Do Firms Rebalance Their Capital Structures?1,495 cited
• 2000How Big Are the Tax Benefits of Debt?1,483 cited
• 2004Capital Structure and Stock Returns1,250 cited
• 1982The Choice Between Equity and Debt: An Empirical Study