Corporate Governance and Performance: The REIT Effect

Corporate Governance and Performance: The REIT Effect

Real estate investment trusts (REITs) offer a natural experiment in corporate governance due to the fact that they leave little free cash flow for management, which reduces agency problems. We exploit a unique and leading corporate governance database to test whether corporate governance matters for...

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Veröffentlicht in:Real estate economics 2010-03, Vol.38 (1), p.1-29
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