1.
Is Disruptive Blockchain Technology the Future of Financial Services?
69 The Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report 232 (2016)
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 31 May 2016
Last Revised: 24 Dec 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Prairie View A&M University - College of Business
Downloads
8,273
2.
A Comparative Analysis on Capitalism and Islamic Economic System
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 10 Mar 2012
Working Paper Series
Management and Science University (MSU) - Faculty of Business Management and Professional Studies
Downloads
8,149
3.
Disrupting Governance: The New Institutional Economics of Distributed Ledger Technology
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 22 Jul 2016
Working Paper Series
RMIT University, Université Paris II - Panthéon-Assas and RMIT University
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5,052
4.
Filial Support Laws in the Modern Era: Domestic and International Comparison of Enforcement Practices for Laws Requiring Adult Children to Support Indigent Parents
20 Elder Law Journal 269 (2013), Penn State Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 08 Jun 2012
Last Revised: 26 Apr 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Pennsylvania State University, Dickinson Law
Downloads
4,658
5.
Virtual Currencies; Bitcoin & What Now after Liberty Reserve, Silk Road, and Mt. Gox?
Richmond Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 20, No. 4, 2014
Number of pages: 108
Posted: 11 Feb 2014
Last Revised: 24 Dec 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Prairie View A&M University - College of Business
Downloads
4,198
6.
Is There a Relationship between Guns and Freedom? Comparative Results from 59 Nations
Texas Review of Law and Politics, Vol. 13
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 06 Feb 2008
Last Revised: 24 Dec 2008
Working Paper Series
Independence InstituteDenver University - Sturm College of Law, College of William and Mary - Department of Economics and Independent ResearchIndependent
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4,081
7.
Analyst Activity Around the World
HBS Strategy Unit Working Paper No. 01-061
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 27 Feb 2000
Working Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Harvard University - Strategy Unit and Harvard University - Harvard Business School
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3,769
8.
The Foundations of Securities Law
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 06 Feb 2008
Last Revised: 13 Feb 2009
Working Paper Series
European University Institute (EUI)
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2,788
9.
The Functional Method of Comparative Law
THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF COMPARATIVE LAW, Mathias Reimann & Reinhard Zimmermann, eds., Oxford University Press, Forthcoming, Duke Law School Legal Studies Paper No. 87
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 03 Nov 2005
Accepted Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
Downloads
2,669
10.
Mapping the Business Systems of 61 Major Economies: A Taxonomy and Implications for Varieties of Capitalism and Business Systems Research
Socio-Economic Review, 16(1), 5-38, 2018
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 15 Sep 2015
Last Revised: 21 Mar 2018
Accepted Paper Series
INSEAD, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), University of Edinburgh Business School, INSEAD Abu Dhabi Campus, European University Institute and University of London - School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
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2,653
11.
E-Commerce, Cyber, and Electronic Payment System Risks: Lessons from PayPal
16 U.C. Davis Business Law Journal 261 (Spring 2016)
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 23 Aug 2013
Last Revised: 24 Dec 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Prairie View A&M University - College of Business
Downloads
2,630
12.
Islamic Economics: A Survey of the Literature
University of Birmingham: Religions and Development Research Programme, Working Paper No. 22
Number of pages: 158
Posted: 12 Oct 2008
Last Revised: 25 Sep 2014
Working Paper Series
Al-Nafi
Downloads
2,365
13.
Shareholder Protection and Stock Market Development: An Empirical Test of the Legal Origins Hypothesis
University of Cambridge, CBR Working Paper, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 108/2008
Number of pages: 53
Posted: 20 Feb 2008
Last Revised: 17 Nov 2010
Working Paper Series
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR), University of Cambridge, European University Institute (EUI) and United Nations
Downloads
2,345
14.
How Do Legal Rules Evolve? Evidence from a Cross-Country Comparison of Shareholder, Creditor and Worker Protection
European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 129/2009, Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge Working Paper No. 382
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 07 Jul 2009
Last Revised: 10 Dec 2018
Working Paper Series
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR), Ashurst LLP and European University Institute (EUI)
Downloads
2,209
15.
The Shari'A Law Factor in International Commercial Arbitration
Number of pages: 75
Posted: 27 Apr 2006
Working Paper Series
Southwestern Law School
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1,811
16.
Modernization Theory
Published in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia, International Relations, 2010, DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.266
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 10 Jul 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Independent
Downloads
1,775
17.
Shareholder Protection: A Leximetric Approach
University of Cambridge, CBR Working Paper No 324
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 21 Apr 2006
Last Revised: 30 Jan 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Ashurst LLP and European University Institute (EUI)
Downloads
1,762
18.
Asian Business Systems: Institutional Comparison, Clusters, and Implications for Varieties of Capitalism and Business Systems Theory
Witt, Michael A., & Gordon Redding (2013). Asian Business Systems: Institutional Comparison, Clusters, and Implications for Varieties of Capitalism and Business Systems Theory. Socio-Economic Review, 11, 2, 265-300.
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 12 Jul 2012
Last Revised: 15 Jul 2017
Accepted Paper Series
INSEAD and INSEAD
Downloads
1,642
19.
Corporate Governance Theories: From Micro Theories to National Systems Theories
Universite de Bourgogne Fargo Working Paper No. 1040101
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 16 Jan 2004
Working Paper Series
Universite de Bourgogne - LEG/FARGO
Downloads
1,503
20.
Culture Rules: The Foundations of the Rule of Law and Other Norms of Governance
Number of pages: 56
Posted: 24 Jun 2002
Working Paper Series
Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliyah - Radzyner School of Law, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliyah - Radzyner School of Law and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Department of Psychology
There are 2 versions of this paper
Culture Rules: The Foundations of the Rule of Law and Other Norms of Governance
Number of pages: 56
Posted: 24 Jun 2002
Downloads
1,427
Culture Rules: The Foundations of the Rule of Law and Other Norms of Governance
Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 37, pp. 659-688, 2007
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 25 Sep 2007
Downloads
601
Downloads
1,427
21.
Bitcoin versus Regulated Payment Systems: What Gives?
38 Cardozo Law Review 1041 (2017)
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 12 Feb 2016
Last Revised: 24 Dec 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Prairie View A&M University - College of Business and Oklahoma City University - School of Law
Downloads
1,315
22.
The Evolution of the Modern Corporation: Corporate Governance Reform in Context
2013 U. Ill. L. Rev. 1001 (2013)
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 26 Aug 2012
Last Revised: 18 Dec 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Adolf A. Berle, Jr. Center on Corporations, Law and Society, Seattle University School of Law
Downloads
1,199
23.
A Critical Assessment of Islamic Economics
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 22 Jul 2004
Working Paper Series
Hamburg Institute of International Economics
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1,147
24.
Revealed Comparative Advantage: An Analysis of Exports of Rwanda
IOSR Journal of Economics and Finance (IOSR-JEF), Volume 8, Issue 3 Ver. III (May-June 2017), pp. 69-76
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 27 Jul 2017
Accepted Paper Series
University of Delhi, Shri Ram College of Commerce, Students and University of Delhi
Downloads
1,116
25.
Bitcoin, Virtual Currencies, and the Struggle of Law and Regulation to Keep Pace
102 Marquette Law Review 447 (2018)
Number of pages: 92
Posted: 15 Jun 2018
Last Revised: 10 Jan 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Prairie View A&M University - College of Business
Downloads
1,093
26.
Governance Challenges of Listed State-Owned Enterprises Around the World: National Experiences and a Framework for Reform
Cornell International Law Journal, Vol. 50, No. 3 (2017 Forthcoming), European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 352/2017, FGV Direito SP Research Paper Series No. 155, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 17-12, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 566
Number of pages: 66
Posted: 29 Mar 2017
Last Revised: 06 Jun 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford Law School and Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School at São Paulo
Downloads
1,033
27.
An Organizational Approach to Comparative Corporate Governance: Costs, Contingencies, and Complementarities
King's College London Management Research Paper No. 41
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 05 Jun 2006
Working Paper Series
Northeastern University - Department of International Business and Strategy, City University London - Sir John Cass Business School, King's College London - The Management Centre and Freie Universität Berlin
Downloads
978
28.
Assessing Mondragon: Stability & Managed Change in the Face of Globalization
William Davidson Institute Working Paper No. 1003
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 17 Dec 2010
Working Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Mondragon University - Ciencias Empresariales, Colgate University - Economics Department, Hamilton College - Economics Department and Mondragon Innovation & Knowledge (MIK, S. Coop)
Downloads
957
29.
The Contexts of Social Inclusion
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 09 Aug 2015
Last Revised: 21 Oct 2015
Working Paper Series
Brown University
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Contexts of Social Inclusion
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 09 Aug 2015
Last Revised: 21 Oct 2015
Downloads
953
The Contexts of Social Inclusion
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs DESA Working Paper No. 144
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 06 Dec 2016
Downloads
154
Downloads
953
30.
Private Enforcement of Directors’ Duties: Derivative Actions as a Global Phenomenon
Stefan Wrbka, Steven Van Uytsel and Mathias Siems (eds.), Collective Actions: Enhancing Access to Justice and Reconciling Multilayer Interests?, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. 93-116
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 30 Oct 2010
Last Revised: 26 Apr 2013
Working Paper Series
European University Institute (EUI)
Downloads
951
31.
Income Tax Discrimination and the Political and Economic Integration of Europe
Yale Law Journal, Vol. 115, pp. 1186-1255, April 2006
Number of pages: 70
Posted: 24 Feb 2006
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School and Columbia Law School
Downloads
927
32.
The Modern Impact of Precolonial Centralization in Africa
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 16 Nov 2005
Working Paper Series
Bocconi University - Department of Finance and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Downloads
920
33.
Comparative Law and Finance: Past, Present and Future Research
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 01 Jul 2009
Last Revised: 17 Nov 2010
Working Paper Series
European University Institute (EUI) and University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)
Downloads
859
34.
Red Barons or Robber Barons? Governance and Financing in Russian Financial-Industrial Groups
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 07 Dec 1999
Working Paper Series
University of Amsterdam - Finance Group and Credit Suisse First Boston
There are 2 versions of this paper
Red Barons or Robber Barons? Governance and Financing in Russian Financial-Industrial Groups
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 07 Dec 1999
Downloads
831
Downloads
831
35.
Shareholder Protection Around the World ('Leximetric II')
University of Cambridge, CBR Working Paper No. 359
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 05 Jun 2007
Last Revised: 30 Jan 2014
Working Paper Series
European University Institute (EUI)
Downloads
829
36.
The Curse of Aid
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 31 Mar 2006
Working Paper Series
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences and Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Faculty of Economic and Business SciencesWorld Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
Downloads
824
37.
Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution
Number of pages: 83
Posted: 16 Nov 2001
Working Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Entrepreneurship Center and Harvard University - Department of Government
There are 2 versions of this paper
Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution
Number of pages: 83
Posted: 16 Nov 2001
Downloads
769
Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution
NBER Working Paper No. w8460
Number of pages: 83
Posted: 03 Sep 2001
Last Revised: 13 Feb 2022
Downloads
129
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769
38.
Strategic Innovation Management and the Firm's Institutional Context
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 10 May 2007
Working Paper Series
Senior Research Fellow, European Institute of Japanese Studies, Stockholm School of Economics
Downloads
762
39.
Do Insider Trading Laws Matter? Some Preliminary Comparative Evidence
American Law and Economics Review, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 144-83, 2005
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 04 Nov 2004
Accepted Paper Series
University of Michigan Law School
There are 2 versions of this paper
Do Insider Trading Laws Matter? Some Preliminary Comparative Evidence
American Law and Economics Review, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 144-83, 2005
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 04 Nov 2004
Downloads
753
Do Insider Trading Laws Matter? Some Preliminary Comparative Evidence
William Davidson Institute Working Paper No. 741
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 22 Feb 2005
Downloads
369
Downloads
753
40.
Towards a Cross-Disciplinary and Contextual Contract Theory
Published as "Contextual Contracts: One a Context-sensitive Approach to Contract Theory," Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, Volume 30, Issue 2, DOI: 10.1177/0260107917740510
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 13 Sep 2016
Last Revised: 16 Jun 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Independent
Downloads
748
41.
Corporate Governance, Risk, and Inequality in Japan and the United States
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 26 Jan 2005
Working Paper Series
University of California, Los Angeles
Downloads
717
42.
The Design of Competition Law Institutions and the Global Convergence of Process Norms: The GAL Competition Project
Forthcoming: THE DESIGN OF COMPETITION LAW INSTITUTIONS: GLOBAL NORMS, LOCAL CHOICES (Eleanor M. Fox & Michael J. Trebilcock, eds.) (Oxford University Press), NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 12-20
Number of pages: 80
Posted: 17 Aug 2012
Last Revised: 23 Aug 2012
Working Paper Series
New York University School of Law and University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
Downloads
689
43.
The Evolution of Ownership Disclosure Rules Across Countries
Journal of Corporate Law Studies, Vol. 10, 2010, Centre for Business Research (CBR) of the University of Cambridge Working Paper No. 393
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 16 Jul 2009
Last Revised: 08 Apr 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Law and European University Institute (EUI)
Downloads
688
44.
Legal Origin or Colonial History?
3 Journal of Legal Analysis 379-409 (2011), USC CLEO Research Paper No. C11-9, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 11-16, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2011-03
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 03 Aug 2011
Last Revised: 17 Dec 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of Southern California Gould School of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, Harvard Law School and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department
Downloads
676
45.
The Role of Cooperative and Social Enterprises: A Multifaceted Approach for an Economic Pluralism
Euricse Working Papers N. 000/09
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 08 Jun 2010
Working Paper Series
University of Trento, European Research Institute on Cooperative & Social Enterprises (EURICSE) and University of Trento - Department of Economics and Management
Downloads
652
46.
Anarchy, Blockchain and Utopia: A Theory of Political-Socioeconomic Systems Organised using Blockchain
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 05 Jan 2018
Working Paper Series
Evidn
Downloads
650
47.
Multiple Faces of Shareholder Power in Asia: Complexity Revealed
NUS - Centre for Law & Business Working Paper No. 14/03, NUS Law Working Paper No. 2014/005, NUS - Centre for Asian Legal Studies Working Paper No. 14/06
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 26 Feb 2014
Last Revised: 16 Jul 2016
Working Paper Series
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University
Downloads
645
48.
Finance and Inequality: Channels and Evidence
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 10 Jul 2007
Working Paper Series
Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and University of Amsterdam - Finance Group
Downloads
640
49.
Who Got What, Then and Now? A Fifty Year Overview from the Global Consumption and Income Project
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 05 May 2015
Last Revised: 11 Mar 2017
Working Paper Series
University of Massachusetts Boston - Department of Economics, University of Goettingen (Göttingen) and The New School - Department of Economics
Downloads
634
50.
Convergence in Shareholder Law
Mathias M. Siems, CONVERGENCE IN SHAREHOLDER LAW, Cambridge University Press, 2008
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 20 Dec 2007
Accepted Paper Series
European University Institute (EUI)
Downloads
631
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