Agency conflicts, ownership concentration, and legal shareholder protection

Journal of Financial Intermediation

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-31

  Burkart, Mike ^a,c,d   Panunzi, Fausto ^b,c,d  

^a STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c ECGI ^*  (Sweden)

^d Center for Economic and Policy Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Law and finance; Monitoring; Ownership structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 31444449037     PISSN: 10429573     EISSN: 10960473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfi.2004.12.004     Document Type: Article

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