Capital structure and corporate financing decisions : theory, evidence, and practice / H. Kent Baker and Gerald S. Martin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Capital structure:an overview -- Factors affecting capital structure decisions -- Capital structure and corporate strategy -- Capital structure and firm risk -- Capital structure and returns -- Capital structure and compensation -- Worldwide patterns in capital structure -- Capital structure theories and empirical tests: an overview -- Capital structure Irrelevance: The Modigliani-miller model -- Trade-off, pecking order, signaling, and markets timing models -- Estimating capital costs: practical implementation of theory's insight -- Economic, regulatory, industry effects on capital structure -- Survey evidence on financing decisions and cost of capital -- The roles of financial intermediaries in raising capital -- Bank relations and collateralization -- Rating agencies and credit insurance -- Secured financing -- Sale and lease back -- Financial distress and bankruptcy -- Fiduciary responsibility and financial distress -- The leave versus buy decision -- Private investment in public equity -- Financing corporate mergers and acquisitions.