Research Catalog

Title

Investor protection and corporate governance : firm-level evidence across Latin America / edited by Alberto Chong and Florencio López-de-Silanes ; foreword by Andrei Shleifer.

Publication

Palo Alto, CA : Stanford Economics and Finance/Stanford University Press ; Washington, DC : World Bank : Inter-American Development Bank, [2007], ©2007.

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Additional Authors

• Chong, Alberto.
• Lopez-de-Silanes, Florencio.

Description

xxi, 557 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Latin American development forum series

Uniform Title

Latin American development forum.

Subject

• Corporate governance
• Investments

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Overview : corporate governance in Latin America / Alberto Chong and Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes -- 1. Insider trading and corporate governance in Latin America / Juan J. Cruces and Enrique Kawamura -- 2. Corporate governance, ownership, and dividend policies in Argentina / Ricardo Bebczuk -- 3. Corporate governance and value in Brazil (and in Chile) / Ricardo P. C. Leal and Andre L. Carvalhal-da-Silva -- 4. Corporate governance, market valuation, and payout policy in Chile / Fernando Lefori and Eduardo Walker -- 5. Corporate governance and firm valuation in Colombia / Luis H. Gutierrez and Carlos Pombo -- 6. Corporate governance and firm value in Mexico / Alberto Chong and Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes -- 7. CEO and director turnover in Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela / Urbi Garay and Maximiliano Gonzalez.

ISBN

• 9780821369135
• 082136913X
• 0821369148 (electronic)
• 9780821369142 (electronic)
• 9780804700016 (Stanford hardcover)
• 080470001X (Stanford hardcover)
• 9780804700078 (Stanford pbk.)
• 0804700079 (Stanford pbk.)

LCCN

2007003700

OCLC

• OCM82471218
• SCSB-5932812

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries