Boardrooms Reforming corporate governance in Europe Corporate governance reform is in
the air. This article warns against partial and hastily conceived interventions in complex and …

Dividends are not only a signal about a firm's prospects under asymmetric information, but
they can also act as a corporate governance device to align the management's interests with …

The Handbook of International Banking provides a clearly accessible source of reference
material, covering the main developments that reveal how the internationalization and …

'I can fully recommend this book to those interested in the transmission process of monetary
policy.'-Harry Garretsen, De Economist Due to financial market imperfections it is imperative …

Vor dem Hintergrund spektakulärer Unternehmenskrisen werden seit den 1990er Jahren
weltweit Standards einer Corporate Governance zur Verbesserung von …

The Asian currency crises of autumn 1997 inevitably lead to heightened scrutiny of China's
financial system and reform. The economy of China and the economies of southeast Asia …

This pioneering volume develops an institutionalist analysis of Malaysia's post-colonial
economy by exploring the political economy of development and particularly the interface …

World Bank Technical Paper No. 370. Local land users and officials often have conflicting
perceptions of and responses to land degradation issues. This causes problems for officials …

This paper summarises the conventional wisdoms concerning differences between financial
systems. It argues that many of them do not stand up to close scrutiny. Instead, it suggests …

Recent literature draws a distinction between Anglo-Saxon (capital market oriented)
financial systems, as represented by the UK, and Continental (banking oriented) financial …