An emerging trend in financial services is banks' increasingly common refusal to do business with industries for political reasons rather than for traditional business justifications. Banks' refusals are often explained by a desire to make a difference or send a message. While this desire may...

The "revolving door" phenomenon has become very common in most industrialised countries, and is leading to conflicts of interest as well as economic distortions. The purpose of this paper is to develop an indicator of the distortionary effects of the revolving door - The Revolving Door Indicator...

This document is a pre-print of the opening pages of a book from Palgrave providing a critical evaluation of the seminal Cadbury Code and how it developed over the last three decades. It shows how the process of institutionalizing corporate governance brought benefit but also missed...