Conclusion
A simple model shows that managerial agency problems can make investor a loss of weak legal systems vulnerable to the effects of sudden rights confidence. Countries with only weakly minority shareholder oss of are particularly vulnerable. If such a country experiences even a small by confidence, outside investors reassess the likely amount of expropriation The managers and adjust the amount of capital they are willing to provide. result can be a fall in asset values and a collapse of the exchange rate. In cross-country regressions, corporate governance variables explain more ofthe variation in exchange rates and stock market performance during the Asian crisis than do acroeconomic variables. This result is not sensitive to changing, the sample period, altering the precise definition of variables, or dropping outliers.