A few centuries ago, capitalism set in motion an explosion of economic productivity. Markets
and private property had existed for millennia, but what other key institutions fostered …

In this article, we examine the state of the art in comparative and international corporate
governance by identifying the key research questions, main concepts, and paradigms of …

China ahora es el segundo país que más empresas Global Fortune 500 tiene en el mundo.
Casi todas ellas son empresas estatales (SOEs, acrónimo en inglés) organizadas dentro de …

This is the long-awaited third edition of this highly regarded comparative overview of
corporate law. This edition has been comprehensively revised and updated to reflect the …

In recent years, scholars and policymakers have rediscovered the concept of industrial
districts-spatial concentrations offirms in the same industry or related industries. In this …

In examining how laws and legal institutions move across jurisdictions, comparative law
scholars have employed the metaphor of a legal transplant to conceptualize both the …

Corporate governance took on a new urgency in the aftermath of Enron's collapse and a
succession of accounting scandals. It became a topic of intense media and activist …

This fully revised and updated second edition of The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law
provides a wide-ranging and diverse critical survey of comparative law at the beginning of …

We examine the impact of country-level political rights on the cost of debt for corporate
bonds issued by firms incorporated in 39 countries. Similar to, but separate from, the relation …

I review the empirical comparative law literature with an emphasis on quantitative work. After
situating the field and surveying its main applications to date, I turn to methodological issues …