Bank monitoring and the maturity structure of Japanese corporate debt issues

Pacific Basin Finance Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 229-250

  Cai, Jun ^a   Cheung, Yan Leung ^a   Goyal, Vidhan K ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Agency costs; Bank monitoring; Debt maturity; G21; G32; G38; Japanese corporate finance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002983040     PISSN: 0927538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0927-538x(99)00009-8     Document Type: Article

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