Corporate Governance Reforms in the EU.

This paper proposes a new approach to quantifying the effects of corporate governance reforms, by focusing on the dynamics of the voting premiums, a measure of the private benefits of control in a corporation. The results indicate that the reforms have been successful in reducing the voting premiums...

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Main Author: Ivaschenko, Iryna V.
Other Authors: Koeva Brooks, Petya
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington : International Monetary Fund, 2008.
Series:IMF Working Papers.
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Introduction; II. National and EU Corporate Governance Reforms; A. National Reforms; B. EU Reforms; III. Measuring the Private Value of Control; IV. Data and Methodology; A. Data Sample and Descriptive Statistics; B. Empirical Strategy; V. Main Findings; A. Voting Premiums Across Time and Countries; B. Have Reforms Reduced the Private Benefits of Control?; C. Have Reforms Brought About Convergence in Corporate Control?; VI. Conclusions; References; Tables; 1. Italy: National Corporate Reform; 2. Germany: National Corporate Governance Reforms.
  • 3. France: National Corporate Governance Reforms4. EU Corporate Governance Reforms; 5. Number of Dual-Class Firms by Country; 6. Voting Premium: Summary Statistics; 7. Voting Premiums Year Effects; 8. Voting Premium Distributed Year Effects; 9. Relative Effectiveness of Reforms in C3 Compared to the EU and Non-EU Peers, by Year; 10. Relative Effectiveness of Reforms Compared to Control Groups: A Summary; 11. Voting Premiums: Year Effects, Accounting for Product Market Reforms.
  • 12. Relative Effectiveness of Reforms in C3 Compared to the EU and Non-EU Peers, Accounting for Product Market Reforms, by Year13. Distribution Characteristics of Voting Premiums, Pooled for All EU Countries; Figures; 1. Dynamic of the Voting Premiums Acorss Countries, 1992-2007; 2. Reform Efforts: Number of Important Corporate Governance Reforms Per Year; 3. Number of National and EU Corporate Governance Reforms; 4. Convergence in Voting Premiums Across Countries; 5. Distribution of Voting Premium Across EU Countries, by Year.