{"product_id":"corporate-governance-lessons-from-transition-economy-reforms-9780691138312","title":"Corporate Governance Lessons from Transition","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn post-socialist countries, corporate finance and transition economics scholars have often done little more than convey the received theory to transition policymakers. This volume focuses on the reverse concern: what, if anything, do the reform experiences of transition countries teach about corporate governance theory more generally?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Outstanding... Corporate Governance Lessons offers many good examples of ... nuanced scholarship... [M]ost of the chapters tackle corporate governance questions from a comparative and historical perspective, allowing the reader to observe cross-national and time-series variations.\"--Basak Kus, Law and Politics Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction vii     Part I: Framework     Chapter One: What Is Good Corporate Governance? by Merritt B. Fox and Michael A. Heller 3      Part II: The Elements of Good Corporate Governance: Law     Chapter Two: Patterns of Legal Change: Shareholder and Creditor Rights in Transition Economies by Katharina Pistor 35  Chapter Three: The Common Law and Economic Growth: Hayek Might Be Right by Paul G. Mahoney 84      Part III: The Elements of Good Corporate Governance: Owners and Managers     Chapter Four: Russian Privatization and Corporate Governance: What Went Wrong? by Bernard Black, Reinier Kraakman, and Anna Tarassova 113  Chapter Five: Why Ownership Matters: Entrepreneurship and the Restructuring of Enterprises in Central Europe by Roman Frydman, Marek Hessel, and Andrzej Rapaczynski 194      Part IV: The Elements of Good Corporate Governance: Stock Markets     Chapter Six: Corporate Governance in Transitional Economies: Lessons from the Prewar Japanese Cotton Textile Industry by Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer 231  Chapter Seven: Privatization and Corporate Governance: The Lessons from Securities Market Failure by John C. Coffee, Jr. 265  Chapter Eight: The Information Content of Stock Markets: Why Do Emerging Markets Have Synchronous Stock Price Movements? by Randall Morck, Bernard Yeung, and Wayne Yu 315      Part V: What Does Transition Contribute to Theory?     Chapter Nine: Conclusion: The Unexplored Role of Initial Conditions by Merritt B. Fox and Michael A. Heller 367      List of Contributors 405  Index 407","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359108759895,"sku":"9780691138312","price":38.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691138312.jpg?v=1754123623","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/corporate-governance-lessons-from-transition-economy-reforms-9780691138312","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}