Was the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Good News for Corporate Bondholders?
Preprint
- 1 January 2008
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
We find a significant decline in average corporate bondholder value around events leading up to the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), but only among bondKeywords
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