ͳ Corporate Governance and Firm Performance: Recent Evidence Sanjai Bhagat* University of Colorado at Boulder Leeds School of Business Brian Bolton University of New Hampshire Whittemore School of Business & Economics May 2009 * Corresponding author: (303) 492-7821 or sanjai.bhagat@colorado.edu We thank Andrew Metrick and seminar participants at Harvard University for constructive comments on a previous draft of this paper.