Financial Scandals and the Role of Private Enforcement: The Parmalat Case

After Enron: Improving Corporate Law and Modernising Securities Regulation in Europe and the US

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 159-214

  Ferrarini, Guido ^a   Giudici, Paolo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

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