Transparency, financial accounting information, and corporate governance. (Part 1: a review of the literature on corporate governance). From: Federal Reserve Bank of New York Economic PolicyReview | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: Bushman, Robert M.; Smith, Abbie J. | COPYRIGHT 2003 Federal Reserve Bank of New York. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

1. INTRODUCTION

Vibrant public securities markets rely on complex systems of supporting institutions that promote the governance of publicly traded companies. Corporate governance structures serve: 1) to ensure that minority shareholders receive reliable information about the value of firms and that a company's managers and large shareholders do not cheat them out of the value of their investments, and 2) to motivate managers to maximize firm value instead of pursuing pe...

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