The Control of Corporate Europe

Fabrizio Barca is General Director for Development at the Italian Treasury, President of the OECD Territorial Policies Committee, and Director of a Research Programme on Corporate and Public Administration Governance at Siena University. He has previously been at the Bank of Italy as Division Chief at the Research Department and Chief of the Department of Development Policies at the Italian Treasury. He graduated from Rome University and completed an M.Phil. degree and research activity at the Universities of Cambridge (1978-80), MIT (1989-90), and Stanford (1994). He had appointments at the Universities of Bocconi, Siena, Modena, and Rome, where he taught corporate finance and Italian economic history. His works include papers and books on the theory of the firm, evidence on SMes, corporate governance and the history of Italian capitalism.Marco Becht teaches at the Institute for European Studies, the Solvay Business School, and the Law Faculty of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and holds a Ph.D. in economics from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. Becht's research focuses on corporate governance and empirical corporate finance. He is a Resident Fellow at ECARES and a Research Associate of CEPR. He was previously at the Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) in Madrid and the European Commission's Directorate for Industry (DG III). Becht is the executive coordinator of the European Corporate Governance Network (ECGN) and the scientific advisor of the Corporate Governance Committee of the European Association of Securities Dealers (EASD).

• 1. The Control of Corporate Europe ; 2. The Separation of Ownership and Control in Austria ; 3. Shareholding Cascades: The Separation of Ownership and Control in Belgium ; 4. Ownership and Voting Power in France ; 5. Ownership and Voting Power in Germany ; 6. Pyramidal Groups and the Separation between Ownership and Control in Italy ; 7. Ownership and Control in the Netherlands ; 8. Ownership and Control of Spanish Listed Firms ; 9. Ownership and Control in Sweden--Strong Owners, Weak Minorities, and Social Control ; 10. Strong Managers and Passive Institutional Investors in the United Kingdom ; 11. Beneficial Ownership in the United States ; THE LARGE HOLDINGS DIRECTIVE ; COMPARATIVE TABLES

'The Control of Corporate Europe is the most in-depth study of the nuances and structure of concentrated ownership and voting control in Europe's large firms. An excellent result from first-rate researchers.'