Is there a gender gap in CEO compensation?

Journal of Corporate Finance

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 849-859

  Bugeja, Martin ^a   Matolcsy, Zoltan P ^a   Spiropoulos, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Compensation; Gender

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863438691     PISSN: 09291199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2012.06.008     Document Type: Article

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