Risk shifts following sarbanes-oxley: Influences of disclosure and governance

Financial Review

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 383-401

  Akhigbe, Aigbe ^a   Martin, Anna D ^b   Newman, Melinda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^b ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Disclosure; Risk shifts; Sarbanes oxley

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349228271     PISSN: 07328516     EISSN: 15406288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6288.2008.00199.x     Document Type: Article

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