Experiments in Financial Democracy: Corporate Governance and Financial Development in Brazil, 1882-1950

by Aldo Musacchio

Book Overview

This book provides a detailed historical description of the evolution of corporate governance and stock markets in Brazil in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The analysis details the practices of corporate governance, in particular the rights that shareholders have to restrict the actions of managers, and how that shaped different approaches to corporate finance over time. In the case of Brazil, even if the protections for investors included...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107514789
• ISBN13: 9781107514782
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"