| Description |
x, 718 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
After Enron: improving corporate law and modernising securities regulation in Europe and the US /John Armour and Joseph A. McCahery --The mechanisms of market efficiency twenty years later: the hindsight bias / Ronald J. Gilson and Reinier Kraakman --Taming the animal spirits of the stock markets: a behavioural approach to securities regulation / Donald C. Langevoort -- Icarus and American corporate regulation / David A. Skeel, Jr. -- Corporate governance after Enron: an age of enlightenment /Simon Deakin and Suzanne J. Konzelmann -- Financial scandals and the role of private enrollment: the Parmalat case / Guido Ferrarini and Paolo Giudici -- A theory of corporate scandals: why the US and Europe differ / John C. Coffee, Jr. -- The case for shareholder access to the ballot / Lucian Arye Bebchuck -- Rules, principles, and the accounting crisis in the United States / William W. Bratton -- The oligopolistic gatekeeper: the US accounting profession / James D. Cox --The liability risk for outside directors : a cross-border analysis / Bernard Black, Brian Cheffins and Michael Klausner --The legal control of directors' conflicts of interest in the United Kingdom : non-executive directors following the Higgs Report / Richard C. Nolan -- Enron and corporate governance reform in the UK and the European community / Paul Davies -- Modern company and capital market problems : improving European corporate governance after Enron / Klaus J. Hopt -- Who should make corporate law? EC legislation versus regulatory competition / John Armour -- Company and takeover law reforms in Europe : misguided harmonization efforts or regulatory competition? / Gérard Hertig and Joseph A. McCahery -- The regulatory process for securities law-making in the EU / Eilís Ferran -- EC company law directives and regulations : how trivial are they? / Luca Enriques |
| Summary |
Collection of papers by leading US and European corporate law scholars analyses recent corporate governance scandals and the strategies devised by regulators to guard against future governance failures |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available online via the World Wide Web, by subscription to EBL (Ebook Library) |
| Subject |
Corporate governance -- Law and legislation -- European Union countries.
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Corporate governance -- Law and legislation -- United States.
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Corporate governance -- Law and legislation.
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Law reform -- European Union countries.
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Law reform -- United States.
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Law reform.
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Securities -- European Union countries.
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Securities -- United States.
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| Author |
Armour, John.
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McCahery, Joseph.
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Ebooks Corporation.
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| LC no. |
2007271610 |
| ISBN |
1841135313 |
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