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shareholders in civil law systems explains crucial differences in corporate structure and finance. It questions the thesis that the …
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broadly accepted that corporations - particularly the world's largest publicly traded corporations – need to be governed with … Modern Corporation Project at Cass Business School, launched the Corporate Governance for a Changing World Roundtable Series …
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Over the period 1980-2007 multinational firms' investment grew four times faster than worldwide GDP. Yet the evidence on whether global diversification is valuable is inconclusive. This paper uses detailed FDI data for 251 UK multinational firms and 4,676 subsidiaries to show that multinational...
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This article surveys corporate governance reforms across the globe, including developments relating to board independence, transparency and disclosure, shareholder rights, gatekeepers, and institutional investors. In addition, the article addresses four key questions for policymakers as...
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Berle himself supported. The world now faces problems caused in large part by the enormous international power of …
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This survey gives an overview of the current state of knowledge on the question whether corporate governance structures worldwide are determinants of differences in economic performance. We look at the identities of owners, monitoring boards, and legal systems and find that some though not all...
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This paper examines the effects of economic shocks originating from China’s Five-Year Plans on firms’ shareholders and …
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season well underway in the U.S., the "outsourcing" of jobs from the developed to the developing world is again on the public … with it other developed economies', participation in the World Trade Organization and processes of global economic … the supporting role apt to be played by such globalization-constitutive financial institutions as the IMF and the World …
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