Board compensation practices and agency costs of debt

Journal of Corporate Finance

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 512-531

  Ertugrul, Mine ^a   Hegde, Shantaram ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency costs; Corporate governance; Cost of debt; Director incentives

Indexed keywords

EID: 56349129204     PISSN: 09291199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2008.09.004     Document Type: Article

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