Expropriation evidence from rights issues in China

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 5-20

  Pan, Hongbo ^a   Xia, Xinping ^a   Yu, Minggui ^b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China rights issues; Corporate governance; Expropriation; Split share structure; State owned enterprise

Indexed keywords

EID: 41449083715     PISSN: 1540496X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/REE1540-496X440101     Document Type: Article

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