Dodging Bullets: Changing U.S. Corporate Capital Structure in the 1980s and 1990s

by Frank Iacono, Judith S. Ruud, Robert N. McCauley, et al.

An entertaining summary of the broad reshaping of U.S. corporate finance in the last decade and a half.

The late 1980s saw a huge wave of corporate leveraging. The U.S. financial landscape was dominated by a series of high-stakes leveraged buyouts as firms replaced their equity with new fixed debt obligations. Cash-financed acquisitions and defensive share repurchases also decapitalized corporations. This trend culminated in the sensational...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262133512
• ISBN13: 9780262133517
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 427 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher