The role of information and financial reporting in corporate governance and debt contracting

Journal of Accounting and Economics - Tập 50 Số 2-3 - Trang 179-234 - 2010
Christopher Armstrong1, Wayne R. Guay1, Joseph Weber2
1The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 1300 Steinberg-Dietrich Hall, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6365, United States
2MIT Sloan School of Management, 50 Memorial Drive, Room E52-325f, Cambridge, MA 02142, United States

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