Equity market liberalization and corporate governance

Journal of Corporate Finance

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 609-621

  Bae, Kee Hong ^a   Goyal, Vidhan K ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Cost of capital; Equity market liberalization; Risk sharing

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957920189     PISSN: 09291199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2010.08.008     Document Type: Article

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