Aldo Musacchio

Gebundenes Buch

Experiments in Financial Democracy

Corporate Governance and Financial Development in Brazil, 1882 1950

Beschreibung

This book is a detailed historical description of the evolution of corporate governance and stock markets in Brazil in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Autor

Aldo Musacchio is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit of Harvard Business School and a Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Before joining Harvard in 2004, Professor Musacchio was a Fellow of the Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University and a Fellow of the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University. His primary fields of expertise are the business and economic history of Latin America, corporate governance, the political economy of development, and new institutional economics. Professor Musacchio's current research explores the role of property rights and the legal environment for long-run economic development, including the ways in which firms adapt to adverse economic conditions. His paper 'Can Civil Law Countries Get Good Institutions? Lessons from the History of Creditor Rights and Bond Markets in Brazil' won the Arthur H. Cole Prize for best paper in the Journal of Economic History, 2007-8. Professor Musacchio received his Ph.D. in the economic history of Latin America from Stanford University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 681g
• ISBN-13: 9780521518895
• ISBN-10: 052151889X
• Artikelnr.: 26573186