I. Comparative and International Aspects Comparative Aspects of Institutional Investment and Corporate Governance (Richard M. Buxbaum) - Some Differences in Corporate Governance in Germany, Japan and America (Mark J. Roe) - Corporate Governance by Institutional Investors? Some Problems from an International Perspective (Tom Hadden) II. United States Public Pension Fund Activism in Corporate Governance Reconsidered (Roberta Romano) - Boards of Directors versus Institutional Investors (Leo Herzel) - CEO Performance, Board Types and Board Performance: A First Cut (Kenneth E Scott/Allan W. Kleidon) - Institutional Investors in the U.S. and the Repeal of Poison Pills: A Practitioner's Perspective (Mark R. Wingerson/Christipher H. Dorn) - Investment Companies as Guardian Sharholders: The Place of the MSIC in the Corporate Governance Debate (Ronald J. Gilson/Reinier Kraakman) III. Europe Institutional Investors in the United Kingdom (Paul Davies) - Corporate Governance in Swedish Listed Companies (Mats Isaksson/Rolf Skog) - Ownership of Equity and Corporate Governance - The Case of Sweden (Erik Berglöf) - Institutional Investors and Corporate Governance in the Netherlands (Wiek J. Slagter) - Institutional Investors, Financial Groups and their Impact on Corporate Governance in Belgium (Eddy Wymeersch) - Les Investisseurs Institutionnels en Droit Francais (Yves Guyon) - Institutional Investors and Corporate Control in Spanish Perspective (Alberto J. Taipa Hermida) - Institutional Investors and Corporate Governance: The Austrian View (Waldemar Jud) - Institutional Investors in Switzerland (Martin Anderson/Thierry Hertig) - Duties of Banks in Voting their Client's Stock (Johannes Köndgen) - The Equity Market in Germany and its Dependency on the System of Old Age Provisions (Michael Hauck) - Institutional Investors and Corporate Governance: A German Perspective (Friedrich Kübler) IV. Australia and Japan Institutional Investors and Corporate Covernance in Australia (Jennifer Hill) - Institutional Investors and Corporate Governance in Japanese Perspective (Harald Baum/Ulrike Schaede) - Institutional Investors and Corporate Governance in Japan (Zenichi Shishido)