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