SSRN JEL Code: G18

1.

Economic Consequences of Financial Reporting and Disclosure Regulation: A Review and Suggestions for Future Research

Number of pages: 91 Posted: 13 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 07 May 2008

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Christian Leuz and Peter D. Wysocki

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Boston University Questrom School of Business

Downloads 20,810

2.

The Flash Crash: High-Frequency Trading in an Electronic Market

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 27 May 2011 Last Revised: 18 Apr 2017

Accepted Paper Series

Andrei A. Kirilenko, Albert S. Kyle, Mehrdad Samadi and Tugkan Tuzun

Imperial College London - Centre for Global Finance and Technology, University of Maryland, Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Edwin L. Cox School of Business and Federal Reserve Board

Downloads 15,440

3.

Slapped in the Face by the Invisible Hand: Banking and the Panic of 2007

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 18 May 2009

Working Paper Series

Gary B. Gorton

Yale School of Management

Downloads 11,150

4.

Competition and Crisis in Mortgage Securitization

Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 88, p.213, (2013)

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 10 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Michael Simkovic

USC Gould School of Law

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 9,041

5.

Two Faces: Demystifying the Mortgage Electronic Registration System's Land Title Theory

William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 53, No. 1, 2011

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 01 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 05 Feb 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Christopher Lewis Peterson

University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law

Downloads 8,001

6.

Why Did Some Banks Perform Better during the Credit Crisis? A Cross-Country Study of the Impact of Governance and Regulation

Charles A Dice Center Working Paper No. 2009-12 , Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2009-03-012

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 17 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2010

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Andrea Beltratti and René M. Stulz

Bocconi University - Department of Finance and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 7,140

7.

Reading About the Financial Crisis: A 21-Book Review

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 27 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2012

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Andrew W. Lo

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

Downloads 7,004

8.

Modern Company and Capital Market Problems: Improving European Corporate Governance after Enron

AFTER ENRON, IMPROVING CORPORATE LAW AND MODERNISING SECURITIES REGULATION IN EUROPE AND THE U.S., pp. 445-496, J. Armour, J. A. McCahery, eds., Oxford (Hart), 2006, ECGI Law Working Paper No. 05/2002, ECGI Finance Working Paper

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 11 Dec 2002 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2009

Working Paper Series

Klaus J. Hopt

Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law

Downloads 6,775

9.

The Global Financial Crisis and the Efficient Market Hypothesis: What Have We Learned?

Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 20 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 11 Dec 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Ray Ball

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 6,124

10.

Corporate Governance Reforms in Continental Europe

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 117-140, Winter 2007

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 16 Mar 2007

Accepted Paper Series

Luca Enriques and Paolo F. Volpin

University of Oxford Faculty of Law and City University London - Faculty of Finance

Downloads 5,739

11.

The Costs and Benefits of Financial Market Regulation

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 21/2004

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 29 Apr 2004

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Luigi Zingales

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

Downloads 5,440

12.

Legal and Economic Issues in Litigation Arising from the 2007-2008 Credit Crisis

PRUDENT LENDING RESTORED: SECURITIZATION AFTER THE MORTGAGE MELTDOWN, Chapter 5, pp. 163-235, Yasuyuki Fuchita, Richard Herring, and Robert Litan, eds., Brookings Institution Press, Washington DC, 2009, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 612, Harvard Law School Program on Risk Regulation Research Paper No. 08-5

Number of pages: 94 Posted: 03 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 23 Nov 2010

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Allen Ferrell, Jennifer E. Bethel and Gang Hu

Harvard Law School, Babson College and Hong Kong Polytechnic University - School of Accounting and Finance

Downloads 5,324

13.

Modelling Operational Risk

Journal of Risk, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 1-16, 2003

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 11 Dec 2001 Last Revised: 06 Jan 2010

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Silvan Ebnöther, Paolo Vanini, Alexander McNeil and Pierre Antolinez-Fehr

Zurich Cantonal Bank, University of Basel, ETH Zürich - Department of Mathematics and Zurich Cantonal Bank

Downloads 5,299

14.

Public Pension Promises: How Big are They and What are They Worth?

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 05 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 13 Oct 2010

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Robert Novy-Marx and Joshua D. Rauh

Simon Business School, University of Rochester and Stanford Graduate School of Business

Downloads 5,245

15.

Where Did the Risk Go? How Misapplied Bond Ratings Cause Mortgage Backed Securities and Collateralized Debt Obligation Market Disruptions

Number of pages: 87 Posted: 07 Nov 2007

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Joseph R. Mason and Joshua Rosner

Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business and Graham Fisher & Co.

Downloads 5,203

16.

The Dark Side of Universal Banking: Financial Conglomerates and the Origins of the Subprime Financial Crisis

Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 41, No. 4, 2009, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 468, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 468

Number of pages: 89 Posted: 13 May 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Arthur E. Wilmarth Jr.

George Washington University Law School

Downloads 5,161

17.

Spam Works: Evidence from Stock Touts and Corresponding Market Activity

Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2006-11, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 135, Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 43/2006

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 27 Jul 2006

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Laura Frieder and Jonathan L. Zittrain

Purdue University - Krannert School of Management and Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Downloads 5,042

18.

Does Venture Capital Require an Active Stock Market?

As published in Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, pp. 36-48, Winter 1999

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 23 Mar 2000

Accepted Paper Series

Ronald J. Gilson and Bernard S. Black

Stanford Law School and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law

Downloads 4,941

19.

The New Vote Buying: Empty Voting and Hidden (Morphable) Ownership

As published in Southern California Law Review, Vol. 79, pp. 811-908, 2006, University of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 53

Number of pages: 99 Posted: 05 Jun 2006 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Henry T. C. Hu and Bernard S. Black

University of Texas at Austin - School of Law and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law

Downloads 4,715

20.

Trends in Earnings Management and Informativeness of Earnings Announcements in the Pre- and Post-Sarbanes Oxley Periods

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 09 Jan 2004

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Daniel A. Cohen, Aiyesha Dey and Thomas Z. Lys

University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,600

21.

Pension Fund Asset Allocation and Liability Discount Rates

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 29 May 2012 Last Revised: 22 Feb 2017

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Aleksandar Andonov, Rob Bauer and Martijn Cremers

Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus School of Economics, Maastricht University and University of Notre Dame

Downloads 4,593

22.

The Effect of SOX Internal Control Deficiencies on Firm Risk and Cost of Equity

Journal of Accounting Research, Forthcoming 2008

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 20 Apr 2006 Last Revised: 07 Nov 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Hollis Ashbaugh Skaife, Daniel W. Collins, William R. Kinney, Jr. and Ryan LaFond

Graduate School of Management, UC-Davis, University of Iowa - Department of Accounting, University of Texas at Austin - Department of Accounting and Algert Global, LLC

Downloads 4,546

23.

Financial Regulation, Behavioural Finance, and the Global Credit Crisis: In Search of a New Regulatory Model

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 13 May 2008 Last Revised: 30 Mar 2009

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Emilios Avgouleas

University of Edinburgh - School of Law

Downloads 4,542

24.

Comparative Company Law

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 77/2006, THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF COMPARATIVE LAW, Mathias Reimann & Reinhard Zimmermann, eds., p. 1161-1191, Oxford University Press, 2006

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 17 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 04 Jul 2011

Working Paper Series

Klaus J. Hopt

Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law

Downloads 4,539

25.

The Regulation and Supervision of Banks Around the World: A New Database

University of Minnesota Financial Studies Working Paper No. 0006; World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2588

Number of pages: 88 Posted: 10 Apr 2001

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James R. Barth, Gerard Caprio Jr. and Ross Levine

Auburn University, Williams College and UC Berkeley

Downloads 4,504

26.

Risk Management and Corporate Governance: The Importance of Independence and Financial Knowledge for the Board and the Audit Committee

HEC Montreal Working Paper No. 05-03

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 07 Jun 2005

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Georges Dionne and Thouraya Triki

HEC Montreal - Department of Finance and HEC Montreal

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,480

27.

Hedge Funds, Insiders, and the Decoupling of Economic and Voting Ownership: Empty Voting and Hidden (Morphable) Ownership

Journal of Corporate Finance, vol. 13, pp. 343-367, 2007, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 56/2006, McCombs Research Paper Series No. FIN-02-06, U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 53

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 10 Jan 2006

Accepted Paper Series

Henry T. C. Hu and Bernard S. Black

University of Texas at Austin - School of Law and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law

Downloads 4,307

28.

Bank Failure, Mark-to-Market and the Financial Crisis

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 27 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 28 Nov 2011

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Amir Amel-Zadeh and Geoff Meeks

University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of Cambridge - Judge Business School

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,275

29.

The Inevitability of Enron and the Impossibility of 'Auditor Independence' Under the Current Audit System

Number of pages: 73 Posted: 11 Mar 2002

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Sean M. O'Connor

University of Washington - School of Law

Downloads 4,213

30.

Does the Fed Control Interest Rates?

The Review of Asset Pricing Studies, Forthcoming, Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 12-23, Fama-Miller Working Paper

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 05 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 02 Jul 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Eugene F. Fama

University of Chicago - Finance

Downloads 4,126

31.

Public and Private Enforcement of Securities Laws: Resource-Based Evidence

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Vol. 93, 2009, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 0-28, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 638

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 11 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Howell E. Jackson and Mark J. Roe

Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School

Downloads 3,958

32.

Textual Analysis in Accounting and Finance: A Survey

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 03 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 21 May 2016

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Tim Loughran and Bill McDonald

University of Notre Dame and University of Notre Dame - Mendoza College of Business - Department of Finance

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,947

33.

The Impairment of Purchased Goodwill: Effects on Market Value

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 19 Sep 2006 Last Revised: 25 May 2012

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Kevin Li, Amir Amel-Zadeh and Geoff Meeks

University of Cambridge - Judge Business School, University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of Cambridge - Judge Business School

Downloads 3,874

34.

The Effect of SOX Section 404: Costs, Earnings Quality and Stock Prices

Journal of Finance 65 (3), 1163-1196, 2010

Number of pages: 73 Posted: 01 May 2007 Last Revised: 23 Jul 2016

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Peter Iliev

Pennsylvania State University - Department of Finance

Downloads 3,833

35.

Stress Testing the Banking System: Methodologies and Applications

STRESS TESTING THE BANKING SYSTEM, M. Quagliariello, ed., Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 10 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 01 May 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Mario Quagliariello

European Banking Authority

Downloads 3,773

36.

The Quantification of Operational Risk

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 30 Dec 2003

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Markus Leippold and Paolo Vanini

University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance and University of Basel

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,758

37.

Measuring Systemic Risk

FRB of Cleveland Working Paper No. 10-02

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 24 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2010

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Viral V. Acharya, Lasse Heje Pedersen, Thomas Philippon and Matthew P. Richardson

New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, AQR Capital Management, LLC, New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance and New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,756

38.

Day Trading International Mutual Funds: Evidence And Policy Solutions

AFA 2001 New Orleans; Yale SOM Working Paper No. ICF - 00-03

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 05 Apr 2000

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William N. Goetzmann, Zoran Ivkovich and K. Geert Rouwenhorst

Yale School of Management - International Center for Finance, Michigan State University, Department of Finance and Yale School of Management - International Center for Finance

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,738

39.

Market Reaction to Events Surrounding the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and Earnings Management

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 05 Dec 2003

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Haidan Li, Morton Pincus and Sonja O. Rego

Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business, University of California, Irvine and Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Accounting

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,623

40.

The Effect of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on Non-US Companies Cross-Listed in the US

Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol. 13, pp. 195-228, 2007, U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 55

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 20 Jan 2006 Last Revised: 04 Nov 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Kate Litvak

Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law

Downloads 3,608

41.

Credit Rating Agencies in Capital Markets: A Review of Research Evidence on Selected Criticisms of the Agencies

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 01 Jun 2006

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Carol Ann Frost

University of North Texas

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,584

42.

Islamic Financial Institutions and Products in the Global Financial System: Key Issues in Risk Management and Challenges Ahead

IMF Working Paper No. 02/192

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 06 Feb 2006

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V. Sundararajan and Luca Errico

International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,565

43.

Short-Termism, the Financial Crisis, and Corporate Governance

Journal of Corporation Law, Vol. 37, p. 264, 2011, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 12-078

Number of pages: 101 Posted: 16 Feb 2012

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Lynne Dallas

University of San Diego School of Law

Downloads 3,553

44.

What Works in Securities Laws?

Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 03-22; AFA 2005 Philadelphia Meetings

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 29 Dec 2004

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Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez de Silanes and Andrei Shleifer

Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business, SKEMA Business School and Harvard University - Department of Economics

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,445

45.

Indexing and Active Fund Management: International Evidence

Number of pages: 73 Posted: 03 May 2011 Last Revised: 06 Jan 2015

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Martijn Cremers, Miguel A. Ferreira, Pedro P. Matos and Laura T. Starks

University of Notre Dame, Nova School of Business and Economics, University of Virginia - Darden School of Business and University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,402

46.

FASB and IASB: Dependence Despite Independence

Virginia Law & Business Review, Vol. 3, pp. 275-309, 2008

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 10 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2015

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Andreas M. Fleckner

Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance

Downloads 3,398

47.

Why Do Firms Go Dark? Causes and Economic Consequences of Voluntary SEC Deregistrations

ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 155/2007, AFA 2006 Boston Meetings Paper, Robert H. Smith School Research Paper No. RHS 06-045

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 24 Oct 2005 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2011

Working Paper Series

Christian Leuz, Alexander J. Triantis and Tracy Yue Wang

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business and University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,387

48.

The Regulatory Response to the Financial Crisis

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 2257

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 25 Mar 2008

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Charles Goodhart

London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Financial Markets Group

Downloads 3,381

49.

Equity Trading in the 21st Century

Marshall School of Business Working Paper No. FBE 09-10

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 11 May 2010 Last Revised: 08 Aug 2015

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James Angel, Lawrence Harris and Chester S. Spatt

Georgetown University - Department of Finance, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department and Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business

Downloads 3,342

50.

Internal Control Weaknesses and Information Uncertainty

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 19 Apr 2006 Last Revised: 12 May 2014

Working Paper Series

Messod Daniel Beneish, Mary Brooke Billings and Leslie D. Hodder

Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Accounting, New York University and Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Accounting

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,225

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