Corporate governance and finance in Poland and Russia

• List of Figures and Tables
• p. vii

• Acknowledgements
• p. xi

• Notes on the Contributors
• p. xiii

• Part I
• Russia and Poland in Comparative Perspective
• p. 1

• 1
• Corporate Governance in Russia and Poland in Comparative Perspective: An Introduction
• p. 3

• 2
• Corporate Governance Structures in PostSocialist Economies: Towards a Central Eastern European Model of Corporate Control?
• p. 23

• Part II
• The Political Economy of Corporate Governance
• p. 49

• 3
• Corporate Control, Governance Practices and the State: The Case of Russia's Yukos Oil Company
• p. 51

• 4
• Politicians or Administrators? State Corporate Governance in Poland
• p. 72

• Part II
• Institutional Owners and Relational Finance
• p. 89

• 5
• The Rise and Fall of a Central European Enterprise: The Case of Elektrim
• p. 91

• 6
• Financial Performance and Knowledge Management in Capital Groups: Privatized versus New Private Businesses
• p. 119

• 7
• Sources of Capital and Structures of Influence: Banks in the Russian Corporate Network
• p. 136

• 8
• 'Private Benefits of Control' and Debt Financing
• p. 159

• Part IV
• Concentrated Ownership and Performance
• p. 177

• 9
• Ownership Structure and Corporate Governance in Russian Firms
• p. 179

• 10
• Ownership Concentration and Corporate Performance: Evidence from Poland
• p. 194

• Part V
• Stockmarket Finance and Corporate Governance Rules
• p. 215

• 11
• Home Bias and Stockmarket Development: The Polish Experience
• p. 217

• 12
• The Contribution of CEE Capital Markets to Corporate Finance
• p. 243

• 13
• A Comparative Study of Corporate Governance in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland
• p. 259

• 14
• Transparency and Disclosure in Russia
• p. 278

• Bibliography
• p. 295

• Index
• p. 323