Trust offices (administratiekantoren) that repackage securities have been a central institution in Dutch finance since the late eighteenth century. Their basic form and functioning have remained largely the same, but over time, the repackaging has come to serve a variety of very different...

This paper assesses the effectiveness of The Netherlands' private sector self-regulation initiative (quot;The Peters Committeequot;) to improve corporate governance. We compare corporate governance characteristics and examine the relation between firm value and these characteristics before and...