International Corporate Governance After Sarbanes-Oxley

"The Sabanes-Oxley Act has been one of the most significant
developments in corporate and securities regulation since the New
Deal. This collection of important articles would be a valuable
resource for anyone seeking to understand Sabanes-Oxley's
far-reaching effects on corporate governance in the United States
and elsewhere."

--Jesse Fried, coauthor of Pay Without Performance: The
Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation and Professor of
Law at the University of California, Berkeley

"The editors have assembled the latest cutting-edge research on
international corporate governance by respected academics in this
field. In this handbook, the editors deal with all aspects of the
significant legislative changes to corporate governance regulation.
It introduces the reader to the new rules that will certainly
improve the reliability and the accuracy of disclosures made by
corporations. The book comes at the right moment with the recent
scandals such as Enron, which will educate all readers especially
shareholders of corporate stock."

--Komlan Sedzro, Professor of Finance, University of Quebec at
Montreal

"Today, corporate governance is a topic at the center of public
policy debate in most industrialized countries. The range of
concerns; the variety of approaches; and their tendency to converge
in some areas or diverge in others (not always in the right
directions) are emphatically demonstrated by these essays. There is
material here of enormous interest for scholars of comparative law
and economic regulation. And significantly, the presentation of
essays from legal, financial, and regulatory viewpoints
demonstrates the growing practical as well as theoretical utility
of interdisciplinary work in this area. Professors Ali and
Gregoriou are to be warmly congratulated for their skill and
initiative in assembling an important publication, as well as for
their own contributions to interdisciplinary scholarship."

--R. P. Austin, BA, LLM (Sydney), DPhil (Oxon), Supreme Court
of New South Wales

"This very international collection emphasizes the economic line
of descent, while including legal and socio-legal contributions. It
fills a very important gap in our empirical knowledge of corporate
governance. It is accessible and comprehensive and will greatly
assist readers from all relevant disciplines, who are trying to
discern the shape of corporate governance as a mature field."

--Dimity Kingsford Smith, Professor of Law, University of New
South Wales

Auteur

Paul U. Ali is an Associate-Professor in the Faculty of Law,
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Paul was
previously a lawyer in Sydney, specialising in corporate finance,
securitization and structured finance. He was part of the corporate
advisory team that advised the Australian Mutual Provident Society,
the largest Australian life company, on its demutualization and the
reconstruction of its group, and the IPO of a new holding company,
AMP Limited, on the Australian and New Zealand Stock Exchanges in
1998 (the then largest IPO ever in Australia). Paul has published
several books and articles, including articles on finance law in
Derivatives Use, Trading and Regulation, Journal of
Alternative Investments, Journal of Banking
Regulation and Journal of International Banking Law and
Regulation, and, most recently, has co-edited a book on
innovative securitizations (Securitisation of Derivatives and
Alternative Asset Classes, 2005). He holds a SJD from the
University of Sydney.

Greg N. Gregoriou is Associate Professor of Finance and
coordinator of faculty research in the School of Business and
Economics at State University of New York, College at Plattsburgh.
He obtained his PhD (Finance) from the University of Quebec at
Montreal and is the hedge fund editor for the peer-reviewed journal
Derivatives Use, Trading and Regulation published by Henry
Stewart Publications based in the U.K. He has authored over 40
articles on hedge funds, and managed futures in various US and UK
peer-reviewed publications, including the Journal of Futures
Markets, European Journal of Finance, Journal of Asset Management,
European Journal of Operational Research, and Annals of Operations
Research. This is his fourth book with John Wiley &
Sons.

Résumé
"The Sabanes-Oxley Act has been one of the most significant developments in corporate and securities regulation since the New Deal. This collection of important articles would be a valuable resource for anyone seeking to understand Sabanes-Oxley's far-reaching effects on corporate governance in the United States and elsewhere."
Jesse Fried, coauthor of Pay Without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation and Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley "The editors have assembled the latest cutting-edge research on international corporate governance by respected academics in this field. In this handbook, the editors deal with all aspects of the significant legislative changes to corporate governance regulation. It introduces the reader to the new rules that will certainly improve the reliability and the accuracy of disclosures made by corporations. The book comes at the right moment with the recent scandals such as Enron, which will educate all readers especially shareholders of corporate stock."
Komlan Sedzro, Professor of Finance, University of Quebec at Montreal

"Today, corporate governance is a topic at the center of public policy debate in most industrialized countries. The range of concerns; the variety of approaches; and their tendency to converge in some areas or diverge in others (not always in the right directions) are emphatically demonstrated by these essays. There is material here of enormous interest for scholars of comparative law and economic regulation. And significantly, the presentation of essays from legal, financial, and regulatory viewpoints demonstrates the growing practical as well as theoretical utility of interdisciplinary work in this area. Professors Ali and Gregoriou are to be warmly congratulated for their skill and initiative in assembling an important publication, as well as for their own contributions to interdisciplinary scholarship."
R. P. Austin, BA, LLM (Sydney), DPhil (Oxon), Supreme Court of New South Wales

"This very international collection emphasizes the economic line of descent, while including legal and socio-legal contributions. It fills a very important gap in our empirical knowledge of corporate governance. It is accessible and comprehensive and will greatly assist readers from all relevant disciplines, who are trying to discern the shape of corporate governance as a mature field."
Dimity Kingsford Smith, Professor of Law, University of New South Wales

Contenu

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

About the Editors.

About the Authors.

PART ONE: FRAMEWORK OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE.

Chapter 1. The Ethics of Corporate Governance: What would
the Political Philosophers Say? (Colin Read).

Chapter 2. The Politics of Symbolism: Sarbanes-Oxley in Context
(Justin O'Brien).

Chapter 3. Governance and Performance Revisited
(Øyvind Bøhren and Bernt Arne Ødegaard).

Chapter 4. Corporate Governance as a Process Oriented
Approach to Socially Responsible Organizations (Marijan
Cingula).

Chapter 5. The Impact of the New Corporate Governance Code
on the Belgian Stock Market (Albert Corhay, Andree Dighaye and
Pierre-Armand Michel).

PART TWO: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL
MARKETS.

Chapter 6. Corporate Governance of Hedge Funds (Robert
Christopherson, Greg N. Gregoriou and William R. Kelting).

Chapter 7. Corporate Governance Reform in Aust…