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lCorporate Finance Course Assignment Table of Contents 1 Introduction 2 2 Summary of Arguments 3 2.1 Timing, investment opportunities, managerial discretion and the security issue decision 3 2.2 Testing static tradeoff against pecking order models of capital structure 4 2.3 Testing static tradeoff against pecking order models of capital structure: a critical comment 5 3 References: 9 1 Introduction In order to discuss the articles supplied I feel it would be useful to briefly define the key expressions at this time. Pecking order Theory: "When [internal funds] are exhausted and there exists a deficit in funds, firms will prefer safer debt to riskier equity. Thus, there exists a financial hierarchy descending from internal funds, to debt, to external equity. Funds are raised through equity issues only after the capacity to issue debt has been exhausted. Firms finance investments first from internal funds, then from debt and only as a last resort from new equity."1 Agency Model Theory: "management sometimes peruse their own objectives ... at the expense of the shareholders"2 Timing Model Theory: "firms experience...

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