Banks and German corporate governance: On the way to a capital market-based system?

Corporate Governance: An International Review

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 397-407

  Hackethal, Andreas ^b   Schmidt, Reinhard H ^b   Tyrell, Marcel ^a,b,c  

^a Johann Wolfgang Goethe University ^*  (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Banking system; Board of directors; Co determination; Complementarity; Corporate governance; Financial system

Indexed keywords

EID: 19744375584     PISSN: 09648410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8683.2005.00434.x     Document Type: Review

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