Contractual corporate governance

Journal of Corporate Finance

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 166-182

  Goergen, Marc ^a,b   Renneboog, Luc ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b European Corporate Governance Institute   (Belgium)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Contractual corporate governance; Corporate governance regulation; Creditor protection; Cross border mergers and acquisitions; Cross listings; Reincorporations; Shareholder protection; Spillover effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 44649141212     PISSN: 09291199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2008.04.003     Document Type: Article

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