SSRN Corporate Governance & Finance eJournal

1.

Three Residual Income Valuation Methods and Discounted Cash Flow Valuation

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 16 Jan 2002 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2015

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Pablo Fernandez

University of Navarra - IESE Business School

Downloads 18,404

2.

A Review of IPO Activity, Pricing and Allocations

Yale ICF Working Paper No. 02-01

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 09 Jan 2002

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Ivo Welch and Jay R. Ritter

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and University of Florida - Department of Finance, Insurance and Real Estate

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 14,317

3.

Hedge Funds, Systemic Risk, and the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008: Written Testimony for the House Oversight Committee Hearing on Hedge Funds

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 17 Nov 2008

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Andrew W. Lo

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

Downloads 10,777

4.

Applied Mergers and Acquisitions

Robert F. Bruner, APPLIED MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS, New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2004

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 31 May 2004

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Robert F. Bruner

University of Virginia - Darden School of Business

Downloads 10,700

5.

A Review of Empirical Capital Structure Research and Directions for the Future

Annual Review of Financial Economics, Vol. 3, 2011

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 22 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 24 Oct 2011

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John R. Graham and Mark T. Leary

Duke University and Washington University in St. Louis - Olin Business School

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 10,473

6.

Regulating Bankers' Pay

Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 98, No. 2, pp. 247-287, 2010, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 641

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 30 May 2009 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Lucian A. Bebchuk and Holger Spamann

Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School

Downloads 9,243

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Corporate Governance in the 2007-2008 Financial Crisis: Evidence from Financial Institutions Worldwide

Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol. 18, 2012

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 29 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2012

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David H. Erkens, Mingyi Hung and Pedro P. Matos

Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) and University of Virginia - Darden School of Business

Downloads 9,070

8.

Shareholder Activism and Corporate Governance in the United States

As published in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law, vol. 3, pp. 459-465, 1998

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 05 Dec 1997

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Bernard S. Black

Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law

Downloads 9,064

9.

The Wages of Failure: Executive Compensation at Bear Stearns and Lehman 2000-2008

Yale Journal on Regulation, Vol. 27, 2010, pp. 257-282, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 657, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 287

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 26 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2010

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Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alma Cohen and Holger Spamann

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

Downloads 9,057

10.

Private Equity Performance: What Do We Know?

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, Fama-Miller Working Paper, Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 11-44, Darden Business School Working Paper No. 1932316

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 23 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 30 Jul 2013

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Robert S. Harris, Tim Jenkinson and Steven N. Kaplan

University of Virginia - Darden School of Business, University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 8,435

11.

How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?

Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 16-33, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 477/2016

Number of pages: 95 Posted: 29 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 10 May 2017

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Paul A. Gompers, Will Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan and Ilya A. Strebulaev

Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 8,259

12.

Economists' Hubris - The Case of Risk Management

Journal of Financial Transformation, Vol. 28, pp. 25-35, April 2010

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 16 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 17 Mar 2010

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Shahin Shojai and George Feiger

Capco Institute and Aston Business School

Downloads 8,238

13.

The Role of Boards of Directors in Corporate Governance: A Conceptual Framework & Survey

Charles A. Dice Center Working Paper No. 2008-21, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 228/2009, Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2008-03-020

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 18 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 23 Jul 2012

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Renee B. Adams, Benjamin E. Hermalin and Michael S. Weisbach

University of New South Wales, Department of Banking and Finance, University of California, Berkeley and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance

Downloads 7,890

14.

Economists' Hubris - The Case of Mergers and Acquisitions

Journal of Financial Transformation, Vol. 26, pp. 4-12, 2009

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 18 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 24 Aug 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Shahin Shojai

Capco Institute

Downloads 7,394

15.

Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 17, pp. 71-92, 2003, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 421

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 06 Jan 2003 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2009

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Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried

Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 7,383

16.

Anti-Competitive Effects of Common Ownership

Ross School of Business Paper No. 1235

Number of pages: 83 Posted: 22 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 02 Jul 2017

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José Azar, Martin C. Schmalz and Isabel Tecu

University of Navarra, IESE Business School, University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Charles River Associates (CRA)

Downloads 7,257

17.

Valuing Young, Start-Up and Growth Companies: Estimation Issues and Valuation Challenges

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 13 Jun 2009

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Aswath Damodaran

New York University - Stern School of Business

Downloads 7,226

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A Century of Corporate Takeovers: What Have We Learned and Where Do We Stand? (previous title: The History of M&A Activity Around the World: A Survey of Literature)

Journal of Banking and Finance, 2008, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 97/2005

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 06 Oct 2005 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Marina Martynova and Luc Renneboog

Cornerstone Research and Tilburg University - Department of Finance

Downloads 7,223

19.

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 7,093

20.

Performance for Pay? The Relation Between CEO Incentive Compensation and Future Stock Price Performance

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 19 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2016

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Michael J. Cooper, Huseyin Gulen and P. Raghavendra Rau

University of Utah - David Eccles School of Business, Purdue University - Krannert School of Management and University of Cambridge

Downloads 7,022

21.

Executive Compensation: Where We are, and How We Got There

George Constantinides, Milton Harris, and René Stulz (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Finance. Elsevier Science North Holland (Forthcoming), Marshall School of Business Working Paper No. FBE 07.12,

Number of pages: 179 Posted: 17 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 13 Aug 2012

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Kevin J. Murphy

University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business

Downloads 7,003

22.

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 6,935

23.

Corporate Investment and Stock Market Listing: A Puzzle?

Review of Financial Studies 28, no. 2 (February 2015): 342-390

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 10 May 2010 Last Revised: 07 Feb 2015

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John Asker, Joan Farre-Mensa and Alexander Ljungqvist

New York University - Leonard N. School of Business - Department of Economics, Cornerstone Research and New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 6,902

24.

The State of Corporate Governance Research

Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 23. No. 3, pp. 939-961, 2010., Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2009-03-20 , Charles A. Dice WP 2009-21, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 652

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 21 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2010

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Lucian A. Bebchuk and Michael S. Weisbach

Harvard Law School and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 6,259

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The Evolution of Shareholder Activism in the United States

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 28 Jan 2007

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Stuart Gillan and Laura T. Starks

University of Georgia - Department of Finance and University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance

Downloads 6,159

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A New Approach to CSR: Company Stakeholder Responsibility

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 30 Jul 2008

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R. Edward Freeman and S. Ramakrishna Velamuri

University of Virginia - Darden School of Business and CEIBS

Downloads 6,046

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Detecting Deceptive Discussions in Conference Calls

Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 50, Issue 2, pp. 495-540, 2012 , Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 83

Number of pages: 71 Posted: 17 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2013

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David F. Larcker and Anastasia A. Zakolyukina

Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

Downloads 6,011

28.

Does M&A Pay? (Chapter 3)

Robert F. Bruner, APPLIED MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 14 Aug 2003

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Robert F. Bruner

University of Virginia - Darden School of Business

Downloads 6,010

29.

Putting Integrity into Finance: A Purely Positive Approach

Harvard Business School NOM Unit Working Paper No. 12-074, Barbados Group Working Paper No. 12-01, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) – Finance Working Paper No. 417/2014,

Number of pages: 84 Posted: 05 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 29 Nov 2015

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Werner Erhard and Michael C. Jensen

Independent and SSRN

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 5,971

30.

Optimal Capital Structure

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 20 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 15 Sep 2013

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Jules H. van Binsbergen, John R. Graham and Jie Yang

University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Duke University and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Downloads 5,771

31.

Behavioral Finance and Investor Governance

Washington & Lee Law Review, Vol. 59, p. 767, 2002

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 23 Jan 2001

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Lawrence A. Cunningham

George Washington University

Downloads 5,731

32.

Bank CEO Incentives and the Credit Crisis

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming, Charles A Dice Center Working Paper No. 2009-13, Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2009-03-13, Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 09-27, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 256/2009

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 28 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2010

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Rüdiger Fahlenbrach and René M. Stulz

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 5,586

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Corporate Payout Policy

Foundations and Trends in Finance, Vol. 3, Nos. 2-3, pp. 95-287, 2008

Number of pages: 198 Posted: 07 May 2009 Last Revised: 29 Dec 2012

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Harry DeAngelo, Linda DeAngelo and Douglas J. Skinner

University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department and The University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 5,533

34.

Tres sentencias judiciales con varios errores sobre valoración (A True Story About Civil Courts and Company Valuation)

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 20 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 08 May 2015

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Pablo Fernandez

University of Navarra - IESE Business School

Downloads 5,514

35.

Does it Pay to Be Good...And Does it Matter? A Meta-Analysis of the Relationship between Corporate Social and Financial Performance

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 21 Jun 2011

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Joshua D. Margolis, Hillary Anger Elfenbein and James P. Walsh

Harvard University, Washington University in St. Louis, Olin School of Business and University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business

Downloads 5,374

36.

Behind the Scenes: The Corporate Governance Preferences of Institutional Investors

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 15 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 07 Jul 2015

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Joseph A. McCahery, Zacharias Sautner and Laura T. Starks

Tilburg University - School of Law; European Banking Center (EBC), Frankfurt School of Finance & Management gemeinnützige GmbH and University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance

Downloads 5,321

37.

A Review of Tax Research

Number of pages: 138 Posted: 23 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2010

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Michelle Hanlon and Shane Heitzman

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business

Downloads 5,274

38.

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

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Arthur E. Wilmarth Jr.

George Washington University Law School

Downloads 5,127

39.

Controlling Shareholders and Corporate Governance: Complicating the Comparative Taxonomy

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 49/2005, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 309, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 281

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 19 Aug 2005

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Ronald J. Gilson

Stanford Law School

Downloads 4,998

40.

The Impact of Shareholder Activism on Target Companies: A Survey of Empirical Findings

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 01 Mar 2006

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Jonathan M. Karpoff

University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business

Downloads 4,943

41.

Corporate Social Responsibility and Access to Finance

Strategic Management Journal, 35 (1): 1-23.

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 25 May 2011 Last Revised: 28 Nov 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Beiting Cheng, Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim

Harvard University - Harvard Business School, London Business School and Harvard University - Harvard Business School

Downloads 4,895

42.

Regulation by Deal: The Government's Response to the Financial Crisis

Number of pages: 81 Posted: 25 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2011

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Steven Davidoff Solomon and David T. Zaring

University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and University of Pennsylvania - Legal Studies Department

Downloads 4,884

43.

Madoff: A Riot of Red Flags

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 02 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 24 Jan 2012

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Greg N. Gregoriou and Francois Lhabitant

SUNY College at Plattsburgh and Kedge Capital Fund Management

Downloads 4,840

44.

El valor de las Acciones sin Voto: un caso real (The Value of Non-Voting Shares)

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 24 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 02 May 2016

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Pablo Fernandez, Javier Aguirreamalloa and Luis Corres Avendaño

University of Navarra - IESE Business School, IESE Business School and IESE

Downloads 4,820

45.

Creditor Control Rights, Corporate Governance, and Firm Value

Number of pages: 79 Posted: 17 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2011

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Greg Nini, Amir Sufi and David C. Smith

Drexel University - Department of Finance, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Virginia - McIntire School of Commerce

Downloads 4,700

46.

Active Investors, LBOS, and the Privatization of Bankruptcy

Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 35-44, Spring 1989, Harvard NOM Research Paper No. 00-08, A THEORY OF THE FIRM: GOVERNANCE, RESIDUAL CLAIMS AND ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS, Harvard University Press, December 2000

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 12 Oct 2000

Accepted Paper Series

Michael C. Jensen

SSRN

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,656

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Miraculous Financial Engineering or Toxic Finance? The Genesis of the U.S. Subprime Mortgage Loans Crisis and its Consequences on the Global Financial Markets and Real Economy

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 26 Jan 2009

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Ivo Pezzuto

ISTUD Business School

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,586

48.

Less Is More: Making Shareholder Activism A Valued Mechanism Of Corporate Governance

Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 241; and Yale ICF Working Paper No. 00-10; Yale SOM Working Paper No. ICF - 00-10

Number of pages: 142 Posted: 22 Jun 2000

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Roberta Romano

Yale Law School

Downloads 4,483

49.

Paying for Long-Term Performance

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 158, pp. 1915-1959, 2010, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 658

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 14 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2010

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Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried

Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School

Downloads 4,448

50.

Risk Management: A Corporate Governance Manual

Number of pages: 113 Posted: 24 Sep 2010

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Aswath Damodaran

New York University - Stern School of Business

Downloads 4,380

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