Experiments in financial democracy : corporate governance and financial development in Brazil, 1882-1950 /

This book provides a detailed historical description of the evolution of corporate governance and stock markets in Brazil in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The analysis details the practices of corporate governance, in particular the rights that shareholders have to restrict the action...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Musacchio, Aldo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Colección:Studies in macroeconomic history.
Temas:
Stockholders > Brazil > History.
Corporate governance > Brazil > History.
Finance > Brazil > History.
Gouvernement d'entreprise > Brésil > Histoire.
Finances > Brésil > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
Corporate governance.
Finance.
Stockholders.
Brazil.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Financial development in Brazil in the nineteenth century
  • 3. The stock exchange and the early industrialization of Brazil, 1882-1930
  • 4. The foundations of financial democracy : disclosure laws and shareholder protections in corporate bylaws
  • 5. Voting rights, government guarantees, and ownership concentration, 1890-1950
  • 6. Directors, corporate governance, and executive compensation in Brazil, c. 1909
  • 7. Bond markets and creditor rights in Brazil, 1850-1945
  • 8. Were bankers acting as market makers?
  • 9. What went wrong after World War I?
  • 10. The rise of concentrated ownership in the twentieth century
  • 11. Conclusion.

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