The evolution of China's banking system: Bank loan announcements 1996-2009

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 165-188

  Gan, Christopher ^a   Zhang, Yuan ^a   Li, Zhaohua ^a   Cohen, David A ^a  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Abnormal returns; Bank loan announcement; Chinese banking system; Market response

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894798508     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629X.2012.00493.x     Document Type: Article

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