Helwege, Jean (contributor); Packer, Frank (contributor) - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]
offerings (IPOs) of equity as a natural phase in the life
cycle of a firm, so that all successful start-ups eventually go … leverage buyouts,
there are some large investment grade firms, such as Cargill and the highly secretive Mars, which remain ….
Overall, we find our firms have much higher leverage than public firms. This seems mainly to reflect
the fact that private …