Global Corporate Governance

The essays in Global Corporate Governance consider international differences in corporate governance, ranging from Europe and North America to the emerging markets of India and Korea. Specifically, essays cover whether or not international differences in governance are a result of markets or law; differences in the quality of governance across countries; globalization and the cost of capital; corporate ownership and control in the U.K., Germany, and France; the financial and economic lessons of Italy's privatization program; and the increasingly important role of sovereign wealth funds.Contributors include:Rajesh Chakrabarti, Indian School of Business; Alexander Dyck, University of Toronto; Frank H. Easterbrook, University of Chicago; Julian Franks, London Business School; Stuart L. Gillan, Texas Tech University; Péter Harbula, Deloitte; E. Han Kim, University of Michigan; Woochan Kim, KDI School of Public Policy and Management; Colin Mayer, Oxford University; William L. Megginson, University of Oklahoma; Mark J. Roe, Columbia University René M. Stulz, Ohio State University; Raghuram G. Rajan, University of Chicago; Luc Renneboog, Tilburg University; Dario Scannapieco, Italian Ministry of Economics and Finance; Mike Wright, Nottingham University; Louise Scholes, Nottingham University; Tomas Simons, McKinsey & Company; Pradeep K. Yadav University of Oklahoma; Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago