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Institutions of Corporate Governance

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The paper is intended to provide a broad overview of the field of corporate governance, and to integrate recent research. Corporate governance is viewed from the perspective of the agency costs involved in obtaining equity investment from minority outside stockholders in a firm controlled by others. Two mechanisms for bounding those agency costs are examined, primarily for the US, Germany and Japan: legal (fiduciary) duties imposed on those in control of the firm, and the exercise of stockholder voting rights. A tentative effort at evaluation of different governance systems concludes the paper.

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  • Kenneth Scott, 1999. "Institutions of Corporate Governance," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, vol. 155(1), pages 1-3, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:mhr:jinste:urn:sici:0932-4569(199903)155:1_3:iocg_2.0.tx_2-6
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    1. Bukvić, Rajko, 2013. "Тадеуш Ковалик – Велики Политекономист [Tadeusz Kowalik – A great political economist]," MPRA Paper 70119, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 2013.
    2. Branston, J. Robert & Cowling, Keith & Sugden, Roger, 2002. "Corporate Governance And The Public Interest," The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS) 626, University of Warwick, Department of Economics.
    3. Abdullah & Jia’nan Zhou & Muhammad Hashim Shah, 2017. "Effect of Disproportional Voting Rights on Firm’s Market Performance: Evidence from Chinese Firms Cross-Listed on U.S. Exchanges," IJFS, MDPI, vol. 5(3), pages 1-11, September.
    4. Branston, J. Robert & Cowling, Keith & Sugden, Roger, 2001. "Corporate Governance and the Public Interest," Economic Research Papers 269400, University of Warwick - Department of Economics.

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    • G34 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Mergers; Acquisitions; Restructuring; Corporate Governance
    • P51 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Comparative Economic Systems - - - Comparative Analysis of Economic Systems
    • G32 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill

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