Corporate Governance and Performance in the Wake of the Financial Crisis: Evidence from US Commercial Banks

Corporate Governance: An International Review

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 418-436

  Grove, Hugh ^a   Patelli, Lorenzo ^b   Victoravich, Lisa M ^b   Xu, Pisun Tracy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

Banking Industry; Corporate Governance; Global Financial Crisis; Loan Quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054045626     PISSN: 09648410     EISSN: 14678683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8683.2011.00882.x     Document Type: Article

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