Who cares about Director Independence?
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Keywords
corporate governance; independent directors; interlocking directorships; empirical legal studies;JEL classification:
- K22 - Law and Economics - - Regulation and Business Law - - - Business and Securities Law
- K2 - Law and Economics - - Regulation and Business Law
- K0 - Law and Economics - - General
- G3 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ALL-2007-03-24 (All new papers)
- NEP-BEC-2007-03-24 (Business Economics)
- NEP-LAW-2007-03-24 (Law & Economics)
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