on the financing of 1157 worldwide private equity deals from 1980 to 2008. Buyout leverage is cross-sectionally unrelated … availability of financing impacts booms and busts in the private equity market, and that agency problems between private equity …

This review evaluates the four major theories of corporate financing: (1) the Modigliani–Miller theory of capital …-structure irrelevance, in which firm values and real investment decisions are unaffected by financing; (2) the trade-off theory, in which … financing responds to managers’ personal incentives; and (4) the pecking-order theory, in which financing adapts to mitigate …

on the financing of 1157 worldwide private equity deals from 1980 to 2008. Buyout leverage is cross-sectionally unrelated … availability of financing impacts booms and busts in the private equity market, and that agency problems between private equity …