Competitive neutrality implies that no business entity is advantaged (or disadvantaged) solely because of its ownership. The Paper argues that far from all SOEs have the opportunity or the incentives to act in an anti-competitive way, and a trend in recent decades toward more fully corporatised...

En este escrito se estudia la implicación de condiciones suficientesy/o necesarias en un cambio estructural, comparando el proceso deindustrialización de Corea del Sur con el de Colombia. Se analizandos períodos: 1960-1990 y 1991-2007, antes y después de la apertura en ambos países. Se...

Many indicators have been developed at international level to evaluate the quality of corporate governance. In this paper, the fundamental elements and limitations of existing indicators are discussed. Among these indicators, particular attention has been focused on the Gim Index, an index...

The last decade of the past century was dominated by paradigmatic controversy on the sequences of restructuring and privatization processes. The economy was registering suboptimal economic performances characterized by severe declines in the GDP; huge losses of the state-owned companies, and...

This study examines whether corporate governance attributes have an effect on the quality of financial disclosure. Specifically, we examine the association between board attributes, ownership retained, auditor quality, and underwriter reputation and management earnings forecast quality measured...

This study examines whether the corporate governance rankings published by The Globe and Mail, a reputed national Canadian newspaper, are reflected in the values that investors accord to firms. A sample of 796 observations on 289 Canadian companies from 2002-2005 inclusively was analyzed using a...

Following the appearance of the recent scandals, the question of the efficiency of the corporate governance mechanisms to appease the financial crisis can be raised. The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of the board of directors effectiveness on the firm's ability to resist the Asian...

In this paper we examine the influence of minority expropriation on disclosure level in France where shareholders are poorly protected and the main agency problem is the one between controlling and minority shareholders (type II conflict) while prior studies have been undertaken in the United...

L'argumentation du texte est la suivante : - le constat du développement d'organisations intermédiaires, - la discussion de la conception « large » de la gouvernance, - un commentaires du Livre Blanc de la gouvernance de l'Union Européenne.

As part of a series of related papers, the authors examine the conceptual foundations of German and American corporate governance, specifically highlighting the role of banks' relationships to corporations and the stock market. This paper focuses on how the regulatory and macroeconomic...