Corporate Governance in Banking and Investor Protection

Corporate Governance in Banking and Investor Protection
Author: Belén Díaz Díaz
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2019-06-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9783319888774

This book explores the status quo of corporate governance in banking and investor protection from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Bringing together original conclusions with a regional and international focus, it provides a timely and comprehensive overview of the effectiveness of corporate governance in the financial sector and an assessment of investor protection. It also includes a number of examples and case studies to illustrate the findings. The book compares corporate governance in the banking and financial industries before and after the financial crisis, and helps to evaluate the effect of the recommendations and regulations that have been developed in the interim.

Investor Protection and Corporate Governance

Investor Protection and Corporate Governance
Author: Alberto Chong
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 584
Release: 2007-06-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0821369148

'Investor Protection and Corporate Governance' analyzes the impact of corporate governance on firm performance and valuation. Using unique datasets gathered at the firm-level the first such data in the region and results from a homogeneous corporate governance questionnaire, the book examines corporate governance characteristics, ownership structures, dividend policies, and performance measures. The book's analysis reveals the very high levels of ownership and voting rights concentrations and monolithic governance structures in the largest samples of Latin American companies up to now, and new data emphasize the importance of specific characteristics of the investor protection regimes in several Latin American countries. By and large, those firms with better governance measures across several dimensions are granted higher valuations and thus lower cost of capital. This title will be useful to researchers, policy makers, government officials, and other professionals involved in corporate governance, economic policy, and business finance, law, and management.

Shareholder-driven Corporate Governance

Shareholder-driven Corporate Governance
Author: Anita Indira Anand
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2020-02-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0190096551

How effectively can governing mechanisms forged before the surge of activist investment continue to protect shareholders and efficiently order capital markets? This is a pressing question for scholars and practitioners of corporate law, as well as for market participants generally. In order to illuminate the extent to which the growing trend of shareholder activism calls for a new understanding of the kind of shareholder-corporate relations the law should facilitate, this book introduces the concept of shareholder-driven corporate governance. This concept refers to the evident phenomenon of shareholder involvement in corporate governance and offers a normative endorsement of this development. In order to secure the benefits of investors' increasing involvement in corporate affairs, regulatory regimes must grapple with a number of considerations. This book is based on the idea that shareholder corporate governance is a welcome development, but that it does not come without regulatory challenges. For one, it requires rejecting the idea that well-ordered capital markets can be achieved through corporate law which is subservient to private ordering. The mandatory character of, for example, securities regulation is vital to fostering shareholder involvement in corporate affairs. Defenders of shareholder corporate governance must also confront the matter of "wolf packs," or loosely formed bands of investors who defy existing regulatory categories but nonetheless exert collective influence. Regulation that is sensitive to both the inadequacies of past approaches to corporate-shareholder relations and the novel challenges posed by increasing shareholder activism will be able to harness activism, allowing capital markets to flourish.

Rethinking Corporate Governance

Rethinking Corporate Governance
Author: Alessio M. Pacces
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0415565197

This book takes a comparative law and economics approach to the study of corporate governance. It looks at the overall impact of corporate law on separation of ownership and control across different jurisdictions and in doing so reappraises the existing framework for economic analysis of corporate law.

Corporate Governance in Central Europe and Russia

Corporate Governance in Central Europe and Russia
Author: Maria Aluchna
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2020-03-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030395049

This book examines corporate governance through a holistic lens that integrates financial, social and environmental goals, e.g. increasing transparency and disclosure. In addition, it investigates the theoretical assumptions guiding the current corporate governance practices adopted by companies in Central Europe and Russia. The book presents a dynamic study on the evolution of corporate governance systems, which were practically non-existent just 30 years ago. In turn, it addresses criticism leveled at corporate governance, its impact on the outbreak of the financial crisis, and recommendations for changes after the crisis. The book employs a regional focus, exploring a group of countries that have often been neglected in corporate governance research. Carefully selected data and a variety of case studies prepared by leading authors from the region provide evidence to support the analysis.

Corporate Governance and Corporate Finance

Corporate Governance and Corporate Finance
Author: Ruud A.I. van Frederikslust
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 780
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134136056

Pt. 1. Alternative perspectives on corporate governance systems -- pt. 2. Equity ownership structure and control -- pt. 3. Corporate governance, underperformance and management turnover -- pt. 4. Directors' remuneration -- pt. 5. Governance, performance and financial strategy -- pt. 6. On takeover as disciplinary mechanism.

Comparative Corporate Governance

Comparative Corporate Governance
Author: Afra Afsharipour
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2021-06-25
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1788975332

This research handbook provides a state-of-the-art perspective on how corporate governance differs between countries around the world. It covers highly topical issues including corporate purpose, corporate social responsibility and shareholder activism.

Selling Hope, Selling Risk

Selling Hope, Selling Risk
Author: Donald C. Langevoort
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2016
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0190225661

"An examination of the efficacy of investor protection regulations"--Provided by publisher.

A History of Corporate Governance around the World

A History of Corporate Governance around the World
Author: Randall K. Morck
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 700
Release: 2007-11-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0226536831

For many Americans, capitalism is a dynamic engine of prosperity that rewards the bold, the daring, and the hardworking. But to many outside the United States, capitalism seems like an initiative that serves only to concentrate power and wealth in the hands of a few hereditary oligarchies. As A History of Corporate Governance around the World shows, neither conception is wrong. In this volume, some of the brightest minds in the field of economics present new empirical research that suggests that each side of the debate has something to offer the other. Free enterprise and well-developed financial systems are proven to produce growth in those countries that have them. But research also suggests that in some other capitalist countries, arrangements truly do concentrate corporate ownership in the hands of a few wealthy families. A History of Corporate Governance around the World provides historical studies of the patterns of corporate governance in several countries-including the large industrial economies of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States; larger developing economies like China and India; and alternative models like those of the Netherlands and Sweden.

The Economic Structure of Corporate Law

The Economic Structure of Corporate Law
Author: Frank H. Easterbrook
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 386
Release: 1996-02-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0674253833

The authors argue that the rules and practices of corporate law mimic contractual provisions that parties would reach if they bargained about every contingency at zero cost and flawlessly enforced their agreements. But bargaining and enforcement are costly, and corporate law provides the rules and an enforcement mechanism that govern relations among those who commit their capital to such ventures. The authors work out the reasons for supposing that this is the exclusive function of corporate law and the implications of this perspective.