Corporate governance and tunneling: Empirical evidence from China

Pacific Basin Finance Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 591-605

  Gao, Lei ^a   Kling, Gerhard ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

China; Corporate governance; Operational tunneling

Indexed keywords

EID: 53149117901     PISSN: 0927538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pacfin.2007.09.001     Document Type: Article

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