NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

A Survey of Corporate Governance

Andrei Shleifer, Robert W. Vishny

NBER Working Paper No. 5554*
Issued in May 1996
NBER Program(s):   CF

This paper surveys research on corporate governance, with special attention to the importance of legal protection of investors and of ownership concentration in corporate governance systems around the world.

*Published: Journal of Finance, Vol. 52, no. 2 (June 1997): 737-783.

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