Large shareholders and banks: Who monitors and how?

Economic Journal

Volumn 113, Issue 484, 2003, Pages 128-146

  Yafeh, Yishay ^a   Yosha, Oved ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKING; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CREDIT PROVISION; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY;

JAPAN;

EID: 0037252669     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0297.00087     Document Type: Article

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