Does corporate governance play an important role in BHC performance? Evidence from the U.S.

Economic Modelling

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 751-760

  Wang, Wei Kang ^a   Lu, Wen Min ^b   Lin, Yi Ling ^c  

^a YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bank holding companies; CAMEL; Corporate governance; Data envelopment analysis; Truncated regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862823139     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2012.01.021     Document Type: Article

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