The Control of Corporate Europe

ISBN-13: 9780199247424 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 362 str.

Fabrizio Barca; Marco Becht

Opis

This volume describes how listed companies are controlled in nine different European countries, and includes a chapter on the USA, allowing transatlantic comparison. Each country study provides an analysis of standardized measures of the size and distribution of voting power, and then explores the aspects of corporate control that are most prominent in the country concerned.

Recenzje

'A significant contribution to the corporate governance literature. The ECGN and editors Fabrizio Barca and Marco Becht deserve broad praise for spearheading this extremely well-researched and detailed study of ownership and control patterns in European nations. The Control of Corporate Europe provides valuable insight into the nature and impact of ownership concentration and voting control of European companies, which is particularly important given the burgeoning interest in shareholder activism in Europe. It will be a source of enormous value to the corporate governance community for many years to come.'

O autorze

Fabrizio Barca is General Director for Development at the Italian Treasury, President of the OECD Territorial Policies Committee, and Director of a Research Programme on Corporate and Public Administration Governance at Siena University. He has previously been at the Bank of Italy as Division Chief at the Research Department and Chief of the Department of Development Policies at the Italian Treasury. He graduated from Rome University and completed an M.Phil. degree and research activity at the Universities of Cambridge (1978-80), MIT (1989-90), and Stanford (1994). He had appointments at the Universities of Bocconi, Siena, Modena, and Rome, where he taught corporate finance and Italian economic history. His works include papers and books on the theory of the firm, evidence on SMes, corporate governance and the history of Italian capitalism. Marco Becht teaches at the Institute for European Studies, the Solvay Business School, and the Law Faculty of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and holds a Ph.D. in economics from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. Becht's research focuses on corporate governance and empirical corporate finance. He is a Resident Fellow at ECARES and a Research Associate of CEPR. He was previously at the Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) in Madrid and the European Commission's Directorate for Industry (DG III). Becht is the executive coordinator of the European Corporate Governance Network (ECGN) and the scientific advisor of the Corporate Governance Committee of the European Association of Securities Dealers (EASD).