Corporate governance quality: Trends and real effects

Journal of Financial Intermediation

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 198-228

  De Nicolò, Gianni ^a   Laeven, Luc ^a,b,c   Ueda, Kenichi ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

^b CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^c European Corporate Governance Institute   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Disclosure; Economic growth; Productivity; Transparency

Indexed keywords

EID: 41349106148     PISSN: 10429573     EISSN: 10960473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfi.2007.10.002     Document Type: Article

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