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Political determinants of corporate governance
In this work, Mark Roe uses statistical and qualitiative analysis to explore the relationship between politics, history, and business organization.
Political conflict and the corporation. Peace as predicate -- The wealthy west's differing corporate governance structures -- A general theory. Social conflict and the institutions of corporate governance. Social democracies and agency costs: raising the stakes -- Reducing shareholders' power to control managers. Left-right politics and ownership seperation: data. Data and confirmation. Nation by nation. France -- Germany -- Italy -- Japan -- Sweden -- United Kingdom -- United States -- Extending the sample?. The direction of causality. Alternative formulations of the thesis -- Backlash -- Contract as metaphor -- Rents -- Rents and politics -- Rents and ownership concentration -- Political change in continental Europe -- Alternative formulations: data. Corporate law's limits. Corporate law as the foundation for securities markets: the theory -- Its limits: theory -- Its limits: data -- The quality of corporate law and its limits. Unifying two political theories. Populism and socialism in corporate governance.
Includes bibliographical references and index.