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Germany's Corporate Governance Reforms; Has the System Become Flexible Enough?
Odenius, Jürgen - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
This article reviews Germany's corporate governance system and the effectiveness of recent reforms. Since the early 1990s far-reaching reforms have complemented the traditional stakeholder system with important elements of the shareholder system. Instead of taking a view on the superiority of...
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Corporate Governance Quality; Trends and Real Effects
Ueda, Kenichi; Nicoló, Gianni De; Laeven, Luc - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
This paper constructs a composite index of corporate governance quality, documents its evolution from 1994 through 2003 in selected emerging and developed economies, and assesses its impact on aggregate and corporate growth and productivity. Our investigation yields three main findings. First,...
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Unstash the Cash! Corporate Governance Reform in Japan
Aoyagi, Chie; Ganelli, Giovanni - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
Japan’s high corporate savings might be holding back growth. We focus on the causes and consequences of the current corporate behavior and suggest options for reform. In particular, Japan’s weak corporate governance—as measured by available indexes—might be...
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Recent trends in the sources of finance for Japanese firms: has Japan become a 'high internal finance' country?
Suzuki, Kenichiro; Cobham, David - School of Economics and Finance, University of St. Andrews - 2005
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ROSCAs and Credit Unions: Is Modern Japan Missing Something?
DAVIES, Stephen J. - In: Kobe Economic & Business Review 48 (2004) February, pp. 73-93
This paper examines the effects of structural changes in financial system on corporate governance in Japan. The primary …
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Shifts in the Japanese Corporate Governance
Kojima, Kenji - Research Institute for Economics and Business … - 1998
This paper examines the effects of structural changes in financial system on corporate governance and finance in Japan … changes in financial system in Japan and their effects on corporate finance and governance; to develop insights concerning … corporate system is changing. As equity financing replace bank financing as the primary source of capital in Japanese major …
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Japanse Corporate Governance in Transition
Kojima, Kenji - Research Institute for Economics and Business … - 1998
This paper examines the effects of structural changes in financial system on corporate governance and finance in Japan … changes in financial system in Japan and their effects on corporate finance and governance; to develop insights concerning … corporate system is changing. As equity financing replace bank financing as the primary source of capital in Japanese major …
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La gouvernance des entreprises au Japon: les causes de son dysfonctionnement
Yoshimori, Masaru - In: Revue Finance Contrôle Stratégie 1 (1998) 4, pp. 173-199
The current economic crisis of Japan may be attributed largely to the dysfunction of the corporate goverance system … particular with the main bank. Internal and external mechanisms of control became inefficient. Up until the 80s the large … discretionary power of the President assured shareholders a higher return on investment by international comparison. This management …
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Management and the Varieties of Capitalism, from <i>The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States
Jacoby, Sanford M. - Princeton University Press
Is there one best way to run the modern business corporation? What is the appropriate balance between shareholders … book shows, corporations in Japan and the United States are responding differently to the pressures unleashed by … corporate governance, and even for the level of inequality in Japan and the United States. <i>The Embedded Corporation</i> is a …
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A Lost Decade for Corporate Governance? What’s Changed, What Hasn’t, and Why
Milhaupt, Curtis - The European Institute of Japanese Studies, … - 2004
shareholders, in the capital markets, and in the incentive structures for management, and the further erosion of corporate norms …
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