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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 actions of managers, and how that shaped different approaches to corporate finance over time. In the case of Brazil, even if the protections for investors included in national laws were relatively weak before 1940, corporate charters contained a series of provisions that protected minority shareholders against the abuses of large shareholders, managers, or other corporate insiders. The investigation uses the Brazilian case to challenge some of the key findings of a recent literature that argues that legal systems (e.g., common vs. civil law) shape the extent of development of stock and bond markets in different nations.Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-139780521518895
eBay Product ID (ePID)25046638270
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Number of Pages326 Pages
Publication NameExperiments in Financial Democracy: Corporate Governance and Financial Development in Brazil, 1882-1950
LanguageEnglish
SubjectFinance
Publication Year2009
TypeTextbook
AuthorAldo Musacchio
SeriesStudies in Macroeconomic History
Dimensions
Item Height229 mm
Item Weight650 g
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorAldo Musacchio