How legal environments affect the use of bond covenants

Journal of International Business Studies

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 235-262

  Qi, Yaxuan ^a   Roth, Lukas ^b   Wald, John K ^c  

^a John Molson School of Business   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

contracts; corporate governance; covenants; creditor rights; shareholder rights

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251470780     PISSN: 00472506     EISSN: 14786990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2010.52     Document Type: Article

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