Corporate ownership structure and bank loan syndicate structure

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-22

  Lin, Chen ^a   Ma, Yue ^b   Malatesta, Paul ^c   Xuan, Yuhai ^d  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Excess control rights; Ownership structure; Syndicated loans

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857456890     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2011.10.006     Document Type: Article

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