Media ownership, concentration and corruption in bank lending

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 326-350

  Houston, Joel F ^a   Lin, Chen ^b   Ma, Yue ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Bank lending; Bank supervision; Corruption; Media concentration; Ownership

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952451065     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2010.12.003     Document Type: Article

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