Corporate voluntary disclosure and the separation of cash flow rights from control rights

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 393-416

  Lee, Kin Wai ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Agency costs; Corporate governance; Voluntary disclosures

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548566799     PISSN: 0924865X     EISSN: 15737179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11156-007-0020-4     Document Type: Article

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