Research Catalog

Title

Corporate governance, financial markets and global convergence / edited by Morten Balling, Elizabeth Hennessy and Richard O'Brien ; with contributions from Ana Isobel Fernández Alvarez [and others].

Publication

Dordrecht ; Boston : Published on behalf of the Société universitaire européenne de recherches financières [by] Kluwer Academic, [1998], ©1998.

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Additional Authors

• Balling, Morten.
• Hennessy, Elizabeth.
• O'Brien, Richard, 1950-
• Société universitaire européenne de recherches financières.

Description

xxvii, 336 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Financial and monetary policy studies ; v. 33

Uniform Title

Financial and monetary policy studies ; 33.

Subjects

• Capital market > Congresses
• Financial institutions > Management > Congresses
• Comparative management > Congresses
• Financial institutions > European Union countries > Congresses
• Corporate governance > Congresses
• International finance > Congresses

Note

• "This volume contains selected lectures from those given at the 20th Colloquium of SUERF, arranged in conjunction with the Robert Triffin-Szirak Foundation and held in Budapest, Hungary, in May 1997"--Ser. t.p.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Morten Balling -- Corporate governance : a keynote speech / Morten Balling -- The effect of board size and composition on corporate performance / Ana Isabel Fernández Álvarez, Silvia Gómez Ansón, and Carlos Fernández Méndez -- Banks and corporate governance in Italy : a two-tier system / Fabrizio Barca, Giovanni Ferri, and Nicola Pesaresi -- The new financial landscape and its impact on corporate governance / Hans J. Blommestein -- Privatization and corporate governance : some lessons from the experience of transitional economies / Tito Boeri and Giancarlo Perasso -- Corporate governance in the Netherlands / Wilko Bolt and Marga Peeters -- Changing corporate governance in Japan / Jenny Corbett -- Stock exchange governance in the European Union / Guido Ferrarini -- Should we trust banks when they sit on the board of directors? / Francesco Giavazzi and Marco Battaglini -- Corporate governance, west and east : a synthesis of the EU framework in the perspective of enlargement / Karel Lannoo -- The role of institutional investors in the corporate governance of financial institutions : the UK case / Chris Mallin -- Corporate governance, competition and performance / Colin Mayer -- Shareholding concentration and pyramidal ownership structure in Belgium / Luc Renneboog -- Insurance company ownership in the Netherlands : implications for corporate governance and competition / Arend Jan Vermaat.

ISBN

0792348257 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

97038341

OCLC

ocm38288537

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries