An Empirical Analysis of the Cost of Long-Term Debt Financing for Cooperative and Proprietary Agricultural Marketing Firms

Peter Vitaliano

No 279435, 1981 Annual Meeting, July 26-29, Clemson, South Carolina from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: Regression analysis relating four measures of the cost of long-term debt financing to capital structure and other financial factors reveals this cost to be generally, but not in every circumstance, unrelated to a marketing cooperative's debt ratio and, in many instances, greater than this cost for a comparable proprietary firm.

Keywords: Agricultural; Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15
Date: 1981-07
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.279435

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