Since there are currently no “codes of best practice” for internal governance, the authors had to rely on governance literature, governance experts and their own research to develop a number of basic principles of internal governance within corporations.

From the start of the financial crisis in 2007, which turned into an economic crisis soon afterwards, it was obvious that public law could not prevent the genesis of this crisis. But is there also a connection between private law and the outbreak of the financial and economic crisis? This thought-provoking book shows that private law provides as many useful institutions, mechanisms and instruments against the emergence of such a crisis as pub...

This book gives you a systematic and comprehensive overview of all specific aspects and methods related to the valuation of small and medium-sized companies, while it also presents alternative ways to look at the valuation and valuation process using practical cases and examples. It not only presents a wide range of techniques to determine the value of a business, but also offers you interesting insights to challenge the different traditional ...

This booklet contains the lecture given by Paul Jorion at the occasion of his acceptance of the chair “Stewardship of Finance” at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels.

This book deals with the endeavor of national and supranational legislators to develop more attractive corporate legal forms and investment frameworks. It focuses on some recent national corporate law reforms, the newly introduced European legal form Societas Europaea and the choice of law in corporate debt securities.

This book describes the most attractive features of Luxembourg’s favourable tax system: the participation exemption, the holding companies or the legislation on venture capital, securitization and investment funds. These regimes are part of a well-balanced and competitive tax system, which may be attractive to both high net worth individuals and corporates.

This book presents a systematic research method for assessing policy questions from an economic and a behavioural economic perspective.

The book aims at practitioners, executive and market professionals from the banking and securities industry as well as academics, who want to update their insights and knowledge about the profound changes in securities trading, clearing and settlement in Europe. Readers will find state-of-the-art discussions about MiFID, T2S and so on.

Like many other markets, stock markets are characterised by asymmetric information. If investors cannot distinguish high-quality from low-quality securities, they will value all securities as average resulting in the well known market for lemons. How can high-quality listed companies communicate with stock markets to distinguish themselves from low-quality listed companies?