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Codes Of Corporate Governance: A Review, Nolan Haskovec
Codes Of Corporate Governance: A Review, Nolan Haskovec
Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership
The U.S. was one of the first nations in the world to concern itself with the governance of its publicly-listed corporations. But it stopped well short of developing authoritative general standards of corporate governance. By contrast, many of the world’s other markets have by now agreed to some sort of ‘official’ principles for the governance of their quoted companies.
A key reason often cited for why the U.S. lacks a single, authoritative national code of corporate governance2 is the general resistance to centralized regulation of corporate law, which is subject to state rather than federal statutes. But several other major …