Rethinking Corporate Governance

Alessio M. Pacces is Professor of Law and Finance at the Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam and since 2009 he has been a Research Associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). Before joining academia, Professor Pacces was a senior researcher in the Law and Economics Research Department of the Bank of Italy, a financial economist at the Italian Securities Authority (Consob), and he served as junior officer in the Italian Financial Police. His research is mainly concerned with the economic analysis of corporate law and of financial regulation.

• Introduction 1. Corporate Governance: Theory and Evidence 2. Private Benefits of Control 3. The Law and Economics of Control Powers: A theoretical Framework 4. Legal Distribution of Corporate Powers 5. How to Cope with Self-Dealing 6. Regulation of Related-Party Transactions: A Comparative Analysis 7. Takeovers: Law and Economics 8. Comparative Takeover Law 9. Concluding Remarks

"Alessio Pacces’ book represents a substantial contribution to the growing field of law and finance. It sheds new light on the problems of corporate governance from both economic and legal perspectives in countries with concentrated corporate ownership."Andrei Shleifer, Professor of Economics, Harvard University"Alessio Pacces has written an important, thought provoking book on corporate governance that invites researchers in law and finance to rethink the relevance and regulation of control powers, in particular in the context of private benefits of control, conflicts of interest, self-dealing and takeovers."Klaus J. Hopt, Professor and Director (emeritus), Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg