Foreign institutional investors and corporate governance in emerging markets: Evidence of a split-share structure reform in China

Journal of Corporate Finance

Volumn 32, Issue , 2015, Pages 312-326

  Huang, Wei ^a,b   Zhu, Tao ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese equity markets; Corporate governance; Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors (QFIIs); Split share structure reform

Indexed keywords

EID: 84953637475     PISSN: 09291199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2014.10.013     Document Type: Article

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