Frontmatter — Preface — Table of Contents — The Contributors — Part One: Essays — The German Two-Tier Board (Aufsichtsrat) A German View on Corporate Governance — The Cadbury Report, Two Years Later — Institutional Investors as Corporate Monitors in the UK — Holding Companies in Belgium — The Corporate Governance Debate in Belgium — A Note on the Typology of Financial Systems — Path Dependence, Political Options, and Governance Systems — Trends in Japanese Corporate Governance — Corporate Governance and Corporate Performance: A Comparison of Germany, Japan and the U.S. — Part Two: Materials — I. United Kingdom — II. USA — III. Canada — IV. France — V. Germany — VI. The Netherlands — VII. Belgium