SSRN Corporate Governance: Arrangements & Laws eJournal

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The Essential Elements of Corporate Law

Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20/2009, Yale Law, Economics & Public Policy Research Paper No. 387, Harvard Law and Economics Research Paper No. 643, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 09-39, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 134/2009

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 21 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2009

Accepted Paper Series

John Armour, Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman

University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, Yale Law School and Harvard Law School

Downloads 9,686

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Regulating the Shadow Banking System

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 15 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2010

Working Paper Series

Gary B. Gorton and Andrew Metrick

Yale School of Management and Yale School of Management

Downloads 9,238

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The Evolution of Fintech: A New Post-Crisis Paradigm?

University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2015/047, UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2016-62

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 20 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 07 Sep 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Douglas W. Arner, Janos Nathan Barberis and Ross P. Buckley

University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Law and University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law

Downloads 8,954

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Secret Liens and the Financial Crisis of 2008

American Bankruptcy Law Journal, Vol. 83, p. 253, 2009

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 05 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 16 Oct 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Michael Simkovic

USC Gould School of Law

Downloads 6,326

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Agency Problems, Legal Strategies, and Enforcement

Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 21/2009, Yale Law, Economics & Public Policy Research Paper No. 388, Harvard Law and Economics Research Paper Series No. 644 , ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 135/2009

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 21 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2010

Accepted Paper Series

John Armour, Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman

University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, Yale Law School and Harvard Law School

Downloads 5,141

6.

SOX after Ten Years: A Multidisciplinary Review

Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 758

Number of pages: 86 Posted: 23 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 29 May 2014

Working Paper Series

John C. Coates, IV and Suraj Srinivasan

Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 5,072

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FinTech, RegTech and the Reconceptualization of Financial Regulation

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business, Forthcoming, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2016/035

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 05 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Douglas W. Arner, Janos Nathan Barberis and Ross P. Buckley

University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Law and University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law

Downloads 4,878

8.

Crowdfunding and the Federal Securities Laws

Columbia Business Law Review, Vol. 2012, No. 1, 2012

Number of pages: 150 Posted: 25 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 18 May 2014

Accepted Paper Series

C. Steven Bradford

University of Nebraska College of Law

Downloads 4,790

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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

Working Paper Series

Emilios Avgouleas

University of Edinburgh - School of Law

Downloads 4,486

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Asymmetric Information and the Choice of Corporate Governance Arrangements

Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 398

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 04 Nov 2002 Last Revised: 08 May 2009

Working Paper Series

Lucian A. Bebchuk

Harvard Law School

Downloads 4,474

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International Differences in the Cost of Equity Capital: Do Legal Institutions and Securities Regulation Matter?

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 15/2003, Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research Working Paper No. 17-04, AFA 2005 Philadelphia Meetings

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 21 Dec 2004

Working Paper Series

Luzi Hail and Christian Leuz

University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,357

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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 4,287

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Satyam Scam in the Contemporary Corporate World: A Case Study in Indian Perspective

IUP Journal, 2010

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 24 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 13 Apr 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Tabrez Ahmad, Malawat Tabrez, Yashovardhan Kochar and Ayan Roy

University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES) - College of Legal Studies, Ghent University-Universiteit Gent - Faculty of Law, Calcutta high Court and Amicorp

Downloads 4,215

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The New Financial Deal: Understanding the Dodd-Frank Act and its (Unintended) Consequences

THE NEW FINANCIAL DEAL: UNDERSTANDING THE DODD-FRANK ACT AND ITS (UNINTENDED) CONSEQUENCES, Wiley, November 2010 , U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 10-21

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 13 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2010

Accepted Paper Series

David A. Skeel Jr.

University of Pennsylvania Law School

Downloads 4,206

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Finding Order in the Morass: The Three Real Justifications for Piercing the Corporate Veil

Cornell Law Review, Forthcoming, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 488

Number of pages: 80 Posted: 19 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 25 Sep 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Jonathan R. Macey and Joshua Mitts

Yale Law School and Columbia Law School

Downloads 4,072

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Complexity, Innovation and the Regulation of Modern Financial Markets

(2012) 2:2 Harvard Business Law Review 235-294, Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 49/2011

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 25 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 16 Jan 2017

Accepted Paper Series

Dan Awrey

University of Oxford, Faculty of Law

Downloads 3,999

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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 3,933

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The Future of Securities Regulation

Chicago Booth School of Business Research Paper No. 08-27, FEEM Working Paper No. 7.2009

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 23 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2009

Working Paper Series

Luigi Zingales

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,699

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Exploring the Role Delaware Plays as a Domestic Tax Haven

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 12 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Scott Dyreng, Bradley P. Lindsey and Jacob R. Thornock

Duke University, Utah State University - Huntsman School of Business and Brigham Young University

Downloads 3,546

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A Transactional Genealogy of Scandal: From Michael Milken to Enron to Goldman Sachs

Southern California Law Review, Vol. 86, pp. 783-868 (2013), U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 12-26, Georgetown Law and Economics Research Paper No. 12-034, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 12-126

Number of pages: 86 Posted: 15 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 13 Dec 2014

Accepted Paper Series

William W. Bratton and Adam J. Levitin

University of Pennsylvania Law School and Georgetown University Law Center

Downloads 3,416

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Capital-Market Effects of Securities Regulation: Prior Conditions, Implementation, and Enforcement

ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 407/2014, Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 12-04

Number of pages: 79 Posted: 23 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 06 Apr 2016

Working Paper Series

Hans Bonde Christensen, Luzi Hail and Christian Leuz

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,185

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Learning and the Disappearing Association Between Governance and Returns

Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 108, No. 2, pp. 323-348, May 2013, Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 667

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 14 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alma Cohen and Charles C. Y. Wang

Harvard Law School, Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics and Harvard Business School

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,146

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An Empirical Examination of the Antecedents and Consequences of Contribution Patterns in Crowd-Funded Markets

Information Systems Research, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 19 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 31 Aug 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Gordon Burtch, Anindya Ghose and Sunil Wattal

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management, New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and Temple University - Department of Management Information Systems

Downloads 3,010

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Different Approaches to Corporate Reporting Regulation: How Jurisdictions Differ and Why

Chicago Booth Initiative on Global Markets Research Paper No. 53, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 156/2010

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 30 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 31 May 2010

Working Paper Series

Christian Leuz

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

Downloads 3,005

25.

The Elusive Quest for Global Governance Standards

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 157, pp. 1263-1317, 2009, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 633

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 08 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Lucian A. Bebchuk and Assaf Hamdani

Harvard Law School and Hebrew University - Faculty of Law

Downloads 2,980

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Behavioral Studies of the Effects of Regulation on Earnings Management and Accounting Choice

ACCOUNTING, ORGANIZATIONS, AND INSTITUTIONS: ESSAYS FOR ANTHONY HOPWOOD, Oxford University Press, 2009, Johnson School Research Paper Series No. #16-09

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 23 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Robert Libby and Nick Seybert

Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and University of Maryland - Department of Accounting & Information Assurance

Downloads 2,825

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Lifting of Corporate Veil

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 14 Dec 2010

Working Paper Series

Harshit Saxena

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Downloads 2,807

28.

Proxies and Databases in Financial Misconduct Research

Accounting Review, Forthcoming, Georgetown McDonough School of Business Research Paper No. 2811778

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 16 Feb 2017

Accepted Paper Series

Jonathan M. Karpoff, Allison Koester, D. Scott Lee and Gerald S. Martin

University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business, Georgetown University, University of Nevada, Las Vegas - Lee Business School and American University - Kogod School of Business

Downloads 2,749

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The Shadow Banking System: Implications for Financial Regulation

FRB of New York Staff Report No. 382

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 30 Jul 2009

Working Paper Series

Tobias Adrian and Hyun Song Shin

International Monetary Fund and Bank for International Settlements

Downloads 2,742

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Crowdfunding or Fraudfunding? Social Networks and the Securities Laws – Why the Specially Tailored Exemption Must be Conditioned on Meaningful Disclosure

North Carolina Law Review, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 03 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Thomas Lee Hazen

University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - School of Law

Downloads 2,682

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After Enron: Improving Corporate Law and Modernising Securities Regulation in Europe and the US

Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics Working Paper No. 2006-07

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 21 Jun 2006

Working Paper Series

John Armour and Joseph A. McCahery

University of Oxford - Faculty of Law and Tilburg University - School of Law; European Banking Center (EBC)

Downloads 2,652

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Enforcement Strategies in UK Corporate Governance: A Roadmap and Empirical Assessment

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 106/2008

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 21 May 2008

Working Paper Series

John Armour

University of Oxford - Faculty of Law

Downloads 2,640

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Thirty Years of Shareholder Rights and Firm Valuation

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 04 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Martijn Cremers and Allen Ferrell

University of Notre Dame and Harvard Law School

Downloads 2,632

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A Macroprudential Approach to Financial Regulation

Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 10-29

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 14 Nov 2010

Working Paper Series

Samuel Gregory Hanson, Anil K. Kashyap and Jeremy C. Stein

Harvard Business School, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business and Harvard University - Department of Economics

Downloads 2,627

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Shackling Short Sellers: The 2008 Shorting Ban

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 02 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 01 Nov 2012

Working Paper Series

Ekkehart Boehmer, Charles M. Jones and Xiaoyan Zhang

Singapore Management University - Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics and Purdue University - Krannert School of Management

Downloads 2,610

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Regulatory Reform in the Wake of the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 04 May 2009

Working Paper Series

Andrew W. Lo

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

Downloads 2,605

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Fair Value Reclassifications of Financial Assets During the Financial Crisis

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 23 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 02 Jul 2014

Working Paper Series

Jannis Bischof, Ulf Brüggemann and Holger Daske

University of Mannheim - Accounting and Taxation, Humboldt University of Berlin - School of Business and Economics and University of Mannheim - Accounting and Taxation

Downloads 2,581

38.

The Future of Financial Regulation

Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 386

Number of pages: 158 Posted: 06 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 16 Jun 2010

Working Paper Series

John Morley and Roberta Romano

Yale Law School and Yale Law School

Downloads 2,545

39.

A Comparison of XBRL Filings to Corporate 10-Ks - Evidence from the Voluntary Filing Program

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 01 May 2009 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2014

Working Paper Series

Jon W. Bartley, Y. Al Chen and Eileen Zalkin Taylor

North Carolina State University, North Carolina State University and North Carolina State University

Downloads 2,534

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Stock Price Response to News of Securities Fraud Litigation: Market Efficiency and the Slow Diffusion of Costly Information

Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 208

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 06 Dec 2000

Working Paper Series

Paul A. Griffin, Joseph Grundfest and Michael A. Perino

University of California, Davis - Graduate School of Management, Stanford University Law School and St. John's University School of Law

Downloads 2,379

41.

Financial Crisis of 2007-2010

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 12 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 15 Aug 2011

Working Paper Series

Winston W. Chang

State University of New York at Buffalo - Department of Economics

Downloads 2,294

42.

Voluntary Winding Up in India - A Comparative Analysis

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 13 Jan 2014

Working Paper Series

Sumita Patwari

Independent

Downloads 2,239

43.

Did SOX Section 404 Make Firms Less Opaque? Evidence from Cross-Listed Firms

Contemporary Accounting Research, 30, 2013, 1133–1165 ,

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 02 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2015

Working Paper Series

Stefan Arping and Zacharias Sautner

University of Amsterdam Business School and Frankfurt School of Finance & Management gemeinnützige GmbH

Downloads 2,235

44.

Finding Bernie Madoff: Detecting Fraud by Investment Managers

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 11 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 18 Jan 2011

Working Paper Series

Stephen G. Dimmock and William Christopher Gerken

Nanyang Technological University - Division of Finance and University of Kentucky - Finance

Downloads 2,112

45.

Rethinking Basic

The Business Lawyer, Vol. 69, No. 3, pp. 671-697, May 2014, Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 764

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 24 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2014

Working Paper Series

Lucian A. Bebchuk and Allen Ferrell

Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School

Downloads 2,083

46.

Documenting the Deal: How Quality Control and Candor Can Improve Boardroom Decision-Making and Reduce the Litigation Target Zone

Forthcoming, The Business Lawyer, Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 794

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 25 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 31 Oct 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Leo E. Strine Jr.

Government of the State of Delaware - Supreme Court of Delaware

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,974

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Towards an Understanding of the Role of Standard Setters in Standard Setting

Journal of Accounting & Economics (JAE), Forthcoming, Harvard Business School Accounting & Management Unit Working Paper No. 10-105

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 29 May 2010 Last Revised: 25 May 2012

Working Paper Series

Abigail M. Allen and Karthik Ramanna

Brigham Young University - Marriott School and Harvard University - Harvard Business School

Downloads 1,935

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Financial Regulation and Performance: Cross-Country Evidence

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2037

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

Working Paper Series

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

Auburn University, Williams College and UC Berkeley

Downloads 1,929

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Cost-Benefit Analysis of Financial Regulation: Case Studies and Implications

European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 234/2014, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 14-05, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 757

Number of pages: 102 Posted: 08 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2015

Working Paper Series

John C. Coates, IV

Harvard Law School

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,925

50.

Regulatory Sanctions and Reputational Damage in Financial Markets

Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 62/2010, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 300/2010

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 16 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2015

Working Paper Series

John Armour, Colin Mayer and Andrea Polo

University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, University of Oxford - Said Business School and Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,922

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