Deutsche Telekom, German Corporate Governance, and the Transition Costs of Capitalism

Gordon, Jeffrey N.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.163385

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Deutsche Telekom, German Corporate Governance, and the Transition Costs of Capitalism

Columbia Law School, Center for Law and Economic Studies, Working Paper No. 140

19 Pages Posted: 24 Sep 1999

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Jeffrey N. Gordon

Columbia Law School; European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

Date Written: March 1997

Abstract

This is a partial and preliminary draft prepared for the Conference on Cross-border Views of Corporate Governance sponsored by the Columbia Law School Sloan Project on Corporate Governance and the L'Ecole Polytechnique Federale (Zurich), March 1997. Thanks go to David Blass for research assistance, to Mark Roe for innumerable conversations on German corporate governance, to David Charny and Katherina Pistor, for comments and suggestions, and to the Sloan Foundation for financial support.

JEL Classification: G34

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Gordon, Jeffrey N., Deutsche Telekom, German Corporate Governance, and the Transition Costs of Capitalism (March 1997). Columbia Law School, Center for Law and Economic Studies, Working Paper No. 140, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=163385 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.163385