Do stock prices reflect the corporate governance quality of Japanese firms?

Journal of the Japanese and International Economies

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 647-662

  Aman, Hiroyuki ^a   Nguyen, Pascal ^b  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Market efficiency; Performance; Risk exposure; Stock returns

Indexed keywords

EID: 56349128649     PISSN: 08891583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jjie.2008.05.001     Document Type: Article

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