Can governance quality predict stock market returns? New global evidence

Pacific Basin Finance Journal

Volumn 35, Issue , 2015, Pages 367-380

  Narayan, Paresh Kumar ^a   Sharma, Susan Sunila ^a   Thuraisamy, Kannan S ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Country characteristics; Governance; Predictability; Returns

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930968680     PISSN: 0927538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pacfin.2015.02.007     Document Type: Article

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