Corporate Governance and Equity Prices
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- 1 February 2003
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Vol. 118 (1), 107-156
- https://doi.org/10.1162/00335530360535162
Abstract
Shareholder rights vary across firms. Using the incidence of 24 governance rules, we construct a “Governance Index” to proxy for the level of sharehoKeywords
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