Most pre-crisis explanations of the various corporate governance systems have considered the separation between ownership and control to be an advantage of the Anglo-American economies. They have also attributed the failure of other countries to achieve these efficient arrangements to their...

Consistent with the existing evidence from a single country study, our differences-in-differences estimation finds a negative effect of employment protection legislation (EPL) provisions on labor productivity in a sample of OECD countries. Our study is distinct, however, in that we provide...

Consistent with the existing evidence from a single country study, our differences-in-differences estimation finds a negative effect of employment protection legislation (EPL) provisions on labor productivity in a sample of OECD countries. Our study is distinct, however, in that we provide...