Corporate Governance

Zingales, Luigi

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Corporate Governance

NBER Working Paper No. w6309

23 Pages Posted: 4 Aug 2000 Last revised: 29 Sep 2022

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Luigi Zingales

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

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Date Written: December 1997

Abstract

This essay summarizes my own personal view of what corporate governance is about. I" argue that it makes sense to discuss corporate governance only in an incomplete contract world. " In this world, the notion of corporate governance is intrinsically related to the definition of the" firm. In this respect, I review the shortcomings of the existing definitions of the firm and the" possible applications of the idea that the firm is a specific investments" introduced by" Rajan and Zingales (1997a and 1997b). I conclude discussing the limitations of the incomplete" contracts approach to corporate governance.

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Zingales, Luigi, Corporate Governance (December 1997). NBER Working Paper No. w6309, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=226064