Monitoring the monitors: The corporate governance in Japanese banks and their real estate lending in the 1980s

Journal of Business

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 3057-3081

  Dinç, I Serdar ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33847084333     PISSN: 00219398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/508008     Document Type: Article

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