Corporate governance e performance delle società per azioni : un'analisi empirica delle public utilities quotate alla Borsa Valori di Milano

What kind of relationship, if any, exists between corporate governance and performance? Despite a lively scholarly commitment, conclusive results on this research question are still missing in the literature. This paper aims to contribute to fill this gap by presenting quantitative evidence from the population of the Italian public utilities listed at the Milan Stock Exchange in the years between 2000 and 2008.