CESifo DICE Report 1/2007 (Spring)

Forum: Shareholder Protection: Diversity in Shareholder Protection in Common Law Countries (Priya P. Lele and Mathias M. Siems) - The Effectiveness of Insider Trading Regulation: International Evidence (Art A. Durnev and Amrita S. Nain) - Controlling vs. Minority Shareholders: is There Expropriation? An Empirical Analysis of the Stock Price Performance of European Companies (Jose Guedes and Gilberto Loureiro) - Shareholder Welfare in Minority Freeze-Out Bids: Are Legal Protections Sufficient? Evidence from the U.S. Market (Thomas W. Bates and James S. Linck) - Can Adverse Effects of Poor Investor Protection Be Mitigated by Incoming Foreign Investment? (Eric Kelley and Tracie Woidtke) - Does Dividend Policy Have a Political Dimension? The British Case (Steven Bank, Brian Cheffins and Marc Goergen); Research Reports: Institutional Determinants of Economic Performance in OECD Countries – An Institutions Climate Index (Theo S. Eicher and Oliver Röhn) - What Does the Institutions Climate Index for OECD Countries Tell us about Institutional Change and Economic Policy Reforms? (Wolfgang Ochel and Rigmar Osterkamp); Reform Models: Health Insurance Reform in the Netherlands (Stefan Gres, Maral Manouguian and Jurgen Wasem); Database: Flat Tax Experiments - Labour Market Reforms - Currency Boards - Migration - Central Bank Autonomy - Foreign Students; News: New at DICE Database, Conferences, Books