Corporate governance, firm value and risk: Past, present, and future

Pacific Basin Finance Journal

Volumn 35, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-12

  Balachandran, Balasingham ^a   Faff, Robert ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accounting scandals; Governance; Liquidity; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947862864     PISSN: 0927538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pacfin.2015.07.002     Document Type: Article

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