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Themes & Topics
Capital Structure

News Stories

• Background Information
  • Agency Costs (Craig Lewis, Vanderbilt University)
  • Capital Budgeting, the Cost of Capital, and the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) (Craig Lewis, Vanderbilt University)
  • Issuing Securities and Capital Structure (Craig Lewis, Vanderbilt University)

• Cash Is King for a Debt-Shy Corporate America U.S. Firms' Profits Rising Twice as Fast as Interest Expenses (WashingtonPost, January 22, 1998)

• Levitz Furniture Files Chapter 11, Readies Plan to Close Some Stores (washingtonpost, September 6, 1997)

• Borrowers start to play a strategic game (Euromoney, June 1997, Registration Required)

Bloopers & Blunders

• ROE, Buybacks, and Value

Finance By Example (Archives)

• IBM to Buyback $3.5 Billion Shares
• Cost of Borrowing & Rating Agencies
• Kmart, in Letter, Seeks to Reassure Its Suppliers