For details on the construction of Gov-Score and its 51 underlying components, see Lawrence D. Brown and Marcus L. Caylor, "Corporate Governance and Firm Valuation," Journal of Accounting and Public Policy 25 (2006) 409-434.
Gov-Score is available for 2,538 firms as of February 1, 2003; 2,749 firms as of February 1, 2004; and 3,258 firms as of February 1, 2005.
The Gov-Scores are derived from a subset of data used to generate Institutional Shareholder Services Inc.'s CGQ® ratings system.
This subset of data was generously provided by Institutional Shareholder Services. We are grateful to Institutional Shareholder Services for permitting free dissemination of this metric. The underlying components of Gov-Score are available for purchase through Institutional Shareholder Services (http://www.issproxy.com/).
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