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The main content of this paper is the analysis of the influence of ownership structure on capital structure and the summary of some scholars in the past on this aspect of research. This article added some private perspectives and came to the conclusion. Bebchuk, Du and Dai, Nor and Ariffin, Boubaker, Driffield, Friedman, Bany, Boubakri and Montreal have provided significant academic support for this paper, using a variety of regression models and structures to conduct data sampling in different regions and come to quite authoritative conclusions. This article also presents basic information about the subject, such as the purpose of changing the ownership structure and how it works, and an explanation of some of the professional names mentioned in this article.
capital structure, ownership structure, CMS, tradeoff
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