The determinants of executive compensation in Japan and the UK: Agency hypothesis or joint determination hypothesis?

Designing Financial Systems for East Asia and Japan

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 272-293

  Kubo, Katsuyuki ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 84904929363     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203300367     Document Type: Chapter

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