Korean bank governance reform after the Asian financial crisis

Pacific Basin Finance Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 483-508

  Choe, Heungsik ^a   Lee, Bong Soo ^b  

^a Korea Institute of Finance   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian financial crisis; Bank governance; Korean bank

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043015964     PISSN: 0927538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-538X(03)00051-9     Document Type: Article

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