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Book SynopsisWhat is transparency? What does it do? How much of it do we need, and for what purpose? This book includes chapters that address transparency in different markets and at different levels: from corporate financial disclosure to lobbying; from the risk incentives facing banks to competition and environmental policies.
Table of ContentsContributors Preface Outline of the book Transparency, capital formation, and economic growth Jens Forssbaeck and Lars Oxelheim Economic policy and institutional transparency: The ECB Iain Begg Transparency in competition policy Philippe Gugler Environmental policy and institutional transparency in Europe Thomas L. Brewer and Sarianna M. Lundan Transparency in human capital policy a prerequisite for economic growth Erik Mellander and Christina Hakanson Transparency in bankruptcy law: A perspective on bankruptcy costs across Europe Karin S. Thorburn Economic growth and the governance of the financial sector in the EU: What role for regulatory transparency? Jean-Pierre Casey Bank insolvency procedures and market discipline in European banking Apanard Angkinand and Clas Wihlborg Legal determinants of the return on equity Davide Lombardo and Marco Pagano The European adoption of international financial reporting standards effects on corporate transparency Magnus Bild and Walter Schuster SOX around the world corporate transparency and risk management disclosure of European issuers in the United States Sohnke M. Bartram, Georg Stadtmann, and Markus F. Wissmann Transparency and capital structure in Europe: Evidence of firm, industry, and national institutional influences Raj Aggarwal and NyoNyo Aung Kyaw Multinational enterprises and their lobbying activities in the European Union Amjad Hadjikhani and Pervez N. Ghauri Corruption and FDI: Japanese FDI inflows into the EU, 1996 2002 Andrew Delios, Ram Mudambi, and Pietro Navarra
