The response of commercial banks to compensation reform

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 335-354

  Vafeas, Nikos ^a   Waegelein, James F ^b   Papamichael, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Commercial banks; Compensation committees; Compensation reform

Indexed keywords

EID: 24144466494     PISSN: 0924865X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024020300363     Document Type: Article

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