We develop and test the hypothesis that foreign direct investment promotes corporate governance spillovers in the host … country. Using firm-level data on cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and corporate governance in 22 countries, we … find that cross-border M&As are associated with subsequent improvements in the governance, valuation, and productivity of …

Introduction: governance in South America / Pia Riggirozzi and Chris Wylde -- Governance and development in South … America -- South American governance in the colonial period / José Briceño Ruiz -- Post-colonial South America: 19th century … laissez-faire governance / Colin M. Lewis -- Dependency theory and South American governance in post-neoliberal times / Miguel …

implement, in the aftermath of a social instability episode, reforms aimed at improving the level of governance. The results are …