Corporate governance in transitional economies : insider control and the role of Banks /

When socialist planned economies were first being transformed into market economies, a naive optimism ruled. The transition could be achieved, it was thought, by simply privatizing state-owned enterprises and by introducing the equity market as a means of corporate control. This textbook notion of t...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Banco Mundial. Instituto de Desarrollo Económico
Other Authors: Aokin, Masahiko, ed, Kim, Hyung-Ki, ed
Format: Book
Published: Washington, D.C. : World Bank. Economic Development Institute, 1995
Series:EDI Development studies
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Table of Contents:
  • Overview / Masahiko Aoki and Hyung-Ki Kim
  • Pt. 1. Generic and comparative issues: theory and policy implications
  • 1. Controlling insider control: issues of corporate governance in transition economies / Masahiko Aoki
  • 2. Political economy issues of ownership transformation in Eastern Europe / Gerard Roland
  • 3. Corporate governance in transition economies: the theory and its policy implications / Erik Berglof
  • Pt. 2. Country studies in comparative perspectives
  • 4. Corporate governance, banks, and fiscal reform in Russia / John M. Litwack
  • 5. Enterprise governance and investment funds in Russian privatization / Noritaka Akamatsu
  • 6. Evolution of commercial banking in Russia and the implications for corporate governance / Elena Belyanova and Ivan Rozinsky
  • 7. Reforming corporate governance and finance in China / Yingyi Qian
  • 8. Centralized decentralization: corporate governance in the german economic economic trasition / Ernst- Ludwig von Thadden
  • Pt. 3. Relevance and lessons of the Japanese and German experiences
  • Introductory note / Masahiko Aoki
  • 9. Cleaning up the balance sheets: Japanese experience in the postwar reconstruction period / Takeo Hoshi
  • 10. The privatization of ex-Zaibatsu Holding stocks and the emergence of Bank-Centered Corporate Groups in Japan / Hideaki Miyajima
  • 11. Savings mobilization and investment financing during Japan's postwar economic recovery /Juro Teranishi
  • 12. Shareholder voting and corporate governance: the german experience and a new approach / Theodor Baums and Philipp v. Randow
  • Index.