Buy high, sell low: How listed firms price asset transfers in related party transactions

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 914-924

  Cheung, Yan Leung ^a   Qi, Yuehua ^a   Raghavendra Rau, P ^b   Stouraitis, Aris ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Expropriation; International corporate governance; Related party transactions; Tunneling

Indexed keywords

EID: 61349113361     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2008.10.002     Document Type: Article

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