Corporate governance and risk-taking: Evidence from Japanese firms

Pacific Basin Finance Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 278-297

  Nguyen, Pascal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bank control; Corporate governance; Family firms; Firm performance; Idiosyncratic risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951955001     PISSN: 0927538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pacfin.2010.12.002     Document Type: Article

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