Board size, independence and performance: An analysis of thai banks

Asia-Pacific Financial Markets

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 211-227

  Pathan, Shams ^a   Skully, Michael ^a   Wickramanayake, J ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Board size; Commercial banks; Fixed effects; Independent directors; Panel data; Performance; Thailand

Indexed keywords

EID: 41149142907     PISSN: 13872834     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10690-007-9060-y     Document Type: Article

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