TY - JOUR AU - Shleifer,Andrei AU - Vishny,Robert W. TI - A Survey of Corporate Governance JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series VL - No. 5554 PY - 1996 Y2 - May 1996 UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5554 L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5554.pdf N1 - Author contact info: Andrei Shleifer Department of Economics Harvard University Littauer Center M-9 Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: 617/495-5046 Fax: 617/496-1708 E-Mail: ashleifer@harvard.edu Robert W. Vishny Booth School of Business The University of Chicago 5807 South Woodlawn Avenue Chicago, IL 60637 Tel: 773/702-2522 Fax: 773/834-1920 E-Mail: Rvishny@gmail.com AB - 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. ER -