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Corporate governance, financial markets, and economic growth: Does corporate governance moderate the finance-growth nexus?

Economics and Business Review
Volume 11 (2025): Issue 3 (September 2025)
By: Mustafa KilincORCID and  Talat UlusseverORCID  
Open Access
|Oct 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18559/ebr.2025.3.2058 | Journal eISSN: 2450-0097 | Journal ISSN: 2392-1641
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Language: English
Page range: 39 - 64
Submitted on: Feb 3, 2025
Accepted on: Jul 22, 2025
Published on: Oct 7, 2025
Published by: Poznan University of Economics and Business
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
Keywords:
corporate governance,
financial markets,
economic growth,
credits,
finance-growth nexus
Related subjects:
Business and economics,
Political economics,
Political economics, other,
Finance,
Mathematics and statistics for economists,
Econometrics

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