Governance indexes and valuation: Which causes which?

Journal of Corporate Finance

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 907-928

  Lehn, Kenneth ^a   Patro, Sukesh ^b   Zhao, Mengxin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BENTLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Causality; Governance; Governance index

Indexed keywords

EID: 36348986038     PISSN: 09291199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2007.07.002     Document Type: Article

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