In view of recent corporate scandals, it is argued that corporate governance can learn from public governance. Institutions devised to control and discipline the behaviour of executives in the political sphere can give new insights into how to improve the governance of firms. Some proposal such...

Este trabajo revisa los fundamentos analíticos y la evidencia empírica de los problemas básicos relacionados con el gobierno de las empresas, las normas contables y la transparencia y analiza el comportamiento de las empresas auditoras, los analistas y las agencias de calificación en la...

Este artículo analiza el efecto de los anuncios de cambios en el control corporativo (Ofertas Públicas de Adquisición, OPA) sobre el precio de cotización en Bolsa de Endesa, Hidrocantábrico y Scottish Power, y el impacto de estos acontecimientos sobre los rendimientos de los competidores...

Spanish Abstract: En este trabajo analizamos la evolución de la regulación de cambios de control en Europa y estudiamos como el movimiento desde sistemas basados en la regla de mercado a sistemas con reglas de igualdad de oportunidades va de la mano de una caída en los beneficios privados del...

Spanish Abstract: El propósito de este artículo es dar cuenta de las principales aportaciones que el análisis económico del Derecho (AED) ha hecho en el estudio e investigación del Derecho de sociedades en España. Seguramente, el principal aporte ha consistido en enfatizar el carácter...

This paper calculates indicators of market structure: concentration ratio, Herfindahl index, Herfindahl-Hirschman index, inverse of the Herfindahl index and the stability indicator. These indicators are used: (1) to measure indirectly the competitiveness of the bank market, (2) to define...

The economic structure in the cooperative societies they are the economic aspects and financiers regulated by the cooperative laws. There are economic aspects that remain affected by the cooperative principles: structural (they concern the financial structure) and functional (they concern the...

The objective of this report is to analyze whether development banks in Germany, Spain and Brazil have made a strategic counter during the current crisis. The development banks (necessarily consistent with public policy) are a tool that can address the countercyclical strategy that could drive...

In recent decades, a growing interest in the micro and meso economic foundations of competitiveness has emerged worldwide. Many authors have seek to explain this phenomenon using approaches that rely on endogenous and relational capabilities of firms. Relational capabilities are exercised in...

The purpose of this study is to determine a system of indicators to assess the quality of corporate governance of Honduran banks. To achieve it, the importance attributed by bank supervisors and supervised bankers to the dimensions and indicators of Corporate Governance (CG) was deepened....