Emerging trends in Asia-Pacific finance research: A review of recent influential publications and a research agenda

Pacific Basin Finance Journal

Volumn 36, Issue , 2016, Pages 66-76

  Linnenluecke, Martina K ^a   Chen, Xiaoyan ^b   Ling, Xin ^a   Smith, Tom ^a   Zhu, Yushu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Asia Pacific; Environmental finance; Finance research; Research agenda; Research trends; Review

Indexed keywords

EID: 84951197614     PISSN: 0927538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pacfin.2015.12.002     Document Type: Review

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