Corporate Governance Regimes addresses corporate law's leading question: whether one or another corporate law regime possesses relative competitive advantage. To this end, the editors have brought together an international team of scholars in economics and law to critically assess the new...

This article examines the relation between executive cash compensation and corporate governance in Europe. Most research performed on the pay-for-performance relation has been conducted in the United States and the United Kingdom, because the widely held nature of shareholding makes the...

This paper studies the short- and long-run share price performance of firms that have gone public on the Euro New Markets (EuroNMs) since their foundation in 1996/97. The initial and long-run returns are remarkable in four ways. First, underpricing is on average 2-3 times higher than that on the...