May 2011
Intermediate to advanced
502 pages
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English
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Capital Structure and Corporate Financing Decisions: Theory, Evidence, and Practice
by H. Kent Baker, Gerald S. Martin
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Carmen Cotei is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Hartford.
She specializes in empirical corporate finance. Her primary research interests are
equity issues, capital structure, and analysts’ forecasts. Other interests are small
business finance, particularly small business survival and financing sources. Pro-
fessor Cotei’s teaching interests are corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions,
and financial markets and institutions. She won the Barney School of Business
Excellence in Teaching Award in 2008. Professor Cotei holds a B.S. in Finance from
the Academy of Economic Studies and a PhD in Financial Economics from the
University of New Orleans.
Joseph Farhat is an Associate Professor of Finance at Central Connecticut State
University (CCSU). Before joining CCSU, he was an Assistant Professor of Finance
at Southern Connecticut State University, Investment Consultant for the Social
Security Investment Commission in Jordan, Assistant Professor at the Hashemite
University-Jordan, and Adjunct Professor of Financial Economics at the Univer-
sity of Jordan. Professor Farhat is the recipient of the
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