CIGI Papers, December, 2006

Monday, December 18, 2006

Scorecard on Corporate Governance in East Asia

Working Paper #13
Stephen Y.L. Cheung, and Hasung Jang

The far-reaching economic effects of the 1997 Asian financial crisis underscore the importance of structural reforms in the governance of the East Asian business sector. This paper measures the progress of corporate governance reforms in nine East Asian economies towards the guidelines established by the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC), as revealed empirically through two surveys.

Saturday, December 2, 2006

Economic Size Trumps All Else? Lessons from BRICSAM

Working Paper #12
Agata Antkiewicz, Andrew F. Cooper, and Timothy Shaw

Continuing CIGI's BRICSAM research, this paper questions whether the size (economic or population) of emerging economies alone is enough to warrant accommodation in the rules and structures of the international system.