As attention moves rapidly towards comparative approaches, the research and teaching of company law has somehow lagged behind. The overall purpose of this book is therefore to fill a gap in the literature by identifying whether conceptual differences between countries exist. Rather than...

A case-based approach to comparative company law / David Cabrelli and Mathias Siems -- General case on directors duties / Theis Klauberg -- Duties of nominee directors / Martin Gelter, Memika Gha and D Gordon Smith -- Obligations of directors in takeovers / Pablo Iglesias-Rodríguez --...

Previous studies show that, in common-law countries, the explanatory power of stock returns is higher using cash flows than earnings and accruals, while the opposite is true in code-law countries. Moreover, the literature has shown the existence of a country-specific effect motivated by...