Product market competition, corporate governance and firm performance: An empirical analysis for Germany

Research in Economics

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 299-332

  Januszewski, Silke I ^a   Köke, Jens ^b   Winter, Joachim K ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Competition; Corporate governance; Productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036743469     PISSN: 10909443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/reec.2001.0278     Document Type: Article

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