Transparency and disclosure scores and their determinants in the istanbul stock exchange

Corporate Governance: An International Review

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 277-296

  Aksu, Mine ^a,b   Kosedag, Arman ^c  

^a SABANCI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Corporate Governance Forum of Turkey ^*  (Turkey)

^c BERRY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency conflicts; Corporate governance; Istanbul Stock Exchange; Transparency and disclosure index

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745784383     PISSN: 09648410     EISSN: 14678683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8683.2006.00507.x     Document Type: Article

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