Debt Capacity and Tests of Capital Struc
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Lemmon, Michael L.; Zender, Jaime F.
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Article
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2010
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School of Business Administration, University of W
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English
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## Abstract We examine the impact of explicitly incorporating a measure of debt capacity in recent tests of competing theories of capital structure. Our main results are that if external funds are required, in the absence of debt capacity concerns, debt appears to be preferred to equity. Concerns o