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Never Waste a Good Crisis: An Historical Perspective on Comparative Corporate Governance


Randall Morck


University of Alberta - Department of Finance and Statistical Analysis; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Bernard Yin Yeung


NUS Business School, National University of Singapore

December 2009

Annual Review of Financial Economics, Vol. 1, pp. 145-179, 2009

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Different economies at different times use different institutional arrangements to constrain the people entrusted with allocating capital and other resources. Comparative financial histories show these corporate governance regimes to be largely stable through time, but capable of occasional dramatic change in response to a severe crisis. Legal origin, language, culture, religion, accidents of history (path dependence), and other factors affect these changes because they affect how people and societies solve problems.

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Date posted: June 4, 2010  

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Morck, Randall K. and Yeung, Bernard Yin, Never Waste a Good Crisis: An Historical Perspective on Comparative Corporate Governance (December 2009). Annual Review of Financial Economics, Vol. 1, pp. 145-179, 2009. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1599380 or http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.financial.050808.114257

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Randall K. Morck (Contact Author)
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National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Bernard Yin Yeung
NUS Business School, National University of Singapore ( email )
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