In this Paper we discuss the role of the media in pressuring corporate managers and directors to behave in ways that … anecdotal and systematic evidence that media affect companies’ policy toward the environment and the amount of corporate … focus of the corporate governance debate and for the feasibility of reforms aimed at improving corporate governance around …

, corporate governance, and property rights protection - and patterns of international capital flows. It studies conditions under … poor corporate governance in a country may be completely bypassed by two-way capital flows in which domestic savings leave … effect is ambiguous for a developing country with an inefficient financial sector/poor corporate governance. However, the net …

What external control mechanisms are most effective in detecting corporate fraud? To address this question we study in … depth all reported cases of corporate fraud in companies with more than 750 million dollars in assets between 1996 and 2004 … frivolous suits, suggesting gains from extending such incentives to corporate fraud more generally. …

We evaluate the impact of firm-level corporate governance provisions on the valuation of firms in a large cross … that, despite the costs associated with improving corporate governance at the firm level, many firms choose to adopt … governance provisions beyond what can be considered the norm in the country, and these improvements in corporate governance have …