Corporate restructuring in Japan: Who monitors the monitor?

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2628-2635

  Inoue, Kotaro ^a   Kato, Hideaki Kiyoshi ^b   Bremer, Marc ^c  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NANZAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Debt restructuring; Financial distress; Japan; Stock market

Indexed keywords

EID: 55149087018     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2008.05.014     Document Type: Article

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