This is the long-awaited third edition of this highly regarded comparative overview of
corporate law. This edition has been comprehensively revised and updated to reflect the …

Corporate governance is concerned with the resolution of collective action problems among
dispersed investors and the reconciliation of conflicts of interest between various corporate …

Comprehensive and up-to-date, this important textbook analyzes the escalating crisis in
corporate governance and the growing interest in its reform across the globe. Written by a …

A strong public securities market, especially a public stock market, can facilitate economic
growth. But creating strong public securities markets is hard. That securities markets exist at …

Globalization has led to a remarkable resurgence in the study of comparative corporate
governance. This area of scholarship had been largely the domain of taxonomists, intent on …

Researchers, investors, and policymakers around the world have been focusing
increasingly on corporate governance. 1 There is now widespread recognition that …

Some scholars have argued that globalization should pressure firms to adopt the most
efficient form of corporate governance; others maintain that such convergence will not occur …

The corporate world today subdivides into rival systems of dispersed and concentrated
ownership, with different corporate governance structures characterizing each. Various …

By enacting the Gramm-Leach-Bliley (GLB) Act'in November 1999, Congress opened a new
era for the regulation of financial services in the United States. From the Great Depression …

This chapter surveys the theoretical and empirical research on the main mechanisms of
corporate law and governance, discusses the main legal and regulatory institutions in …