The Control of Corporate Europe (Feem Studies in Economics) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199247420 ISBN 13: 9780199247424

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2002

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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 Universite 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).

Review:

`'The Control of Corporate Europe is the most in-depth study of the nuances and structure of concentrated ownership and voting control in Europe's large firms. An excellent result from first-rate researchers.'
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Mark Roe, Berg Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

`'This rigorous analysis of corporate control in Europe is thought provoking and I have no doubts that it will become a standard reference on the subject. I recommend it to anybody wanting to understand the complex issues confronting the European Union as it strives to formulate its securities
market regulation, in particular the rules on corporate takeovers.'
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Theodor Baums, Professor of Corporate and Banking Law, University of Frankfurt and Chairman of the German Government's Commission on Corporate Governance

`'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.'
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Ira M. Millstein, Senior Partner, Weil, Gotshal and Manges LLP and Chairman, World Bank/OECD Private Sector Advisory Group on Corporate Governance

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0199247420
• ISBN 13: 9780199247424
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 362
• Editor: Barca Fabrizio, Becht Marco