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On the Irrelevance of Corporate Financial Policy

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This article is published in Research Papers in Economics.The article was published on 1972-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 394 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Corporate governance.

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Determinants of corporate borrowing

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Two Agency-Cost Explanations of Dividends

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The theory of contracts

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A theory of optimal capital structure

TL;DR: In this article, a multi-period model of firm valuation derived under the assumptions that bankruptcy is possible and that secondary markets for assets are imperfect is presented, given the assumption that the probability of bankruptcy is zero, the model is formally identical to that proposed by Modigliani and Miller.
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The Cost of Capital, Corporation Finance and the Theory of Investment

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The structure of investor preferences and asset returns, and separability in portfolio allocation: a contribution to the pure theory of mutual funds

TL;DR: In this paper, the structure of investor preferences and asset returns, and separability in portfolio allocation are discussed, and conditions under which the more restrictive separation into risky and safe assets can occur; isolation of the peculiar role played by money.