1.
A Sober Look at SPACs
Yale Journal on Regulation, Forthcoming, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 559, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 20-48, European Corporate Governance Institute – Finance Working Paper No. 746/2021
Number of pages: 63
Posted: 16 Nov 2020
Last Revised: 02 Apr 2021
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford Law School, New York University School of Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads
30,403
2.
Aggregate Confusion: The Divergence of ESG Ratings
Number of pages: 64
Posted: 20 Aug 2019
Last Revised: 18 May 2020
Working Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, University of Zurich, Department of Banking and Finance and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads
22,782
3.
Three Residual Income Valuation Methods and Discounted Cash Flow Valuation
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 16 Jan 2002
Last Revised: 02 Jun 2019
Working Paper Series
IESE Business School
Downloads
19,704
4.
A Review of IPO Activity, Pricing and Allocations
Yale ICF Working Paper No. 02-01
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 09 Jan 2002
Working Paper Series
University of Florida - Department of Finance, Insurance and Real Estate and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
There are 3 versions of this paper
A Review of IPO Activity, Pricing and Allocations
Yale ICF Working Paper No. 02-01
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 09 Jan 2002
Downloads
15,819
A Review of IPO Activity, Pricing, and Allocations
NBER Working Paper No. w8805
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 21 Feb 2002
Last Revised: 25 Jul 2021
Downloads
257
Downloads
15,819
5.
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
Working Paper Series
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
Downloads
15,662
6.
Anticompetitive Effects of Common Ownership
Journal of Finance, 73(4), 2018
Number of pages: 79
Posted: 22 Apr 2014
Last Revised: 13 May 2018
Accepted Paper Series
University of Navarra, IESE Business School, CEPRUniversity of Oxford - Finance and Charles River Associates (CRA)
Downloads
15,049
7.
Valuing Young, Start-Up and Growth Companies: Estimation Issues and Valuation Challenges
Number of pages: 67
Posted: 13 Jun 2009
Working Paper Series
New York University - Stern School of Business
Downloads
13,361
8.
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
Working Paper Series
Duke University and Washington University in St. Louis - Olin Business School
There are 2 versions of this paper
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
Downloads
12,441
A Review of Empirical Capital Structure Research and Directions for the Future
Annual Review of Financial Economics, Vol. 3, pp. 309-345, 2011
Posted: 10 Jan 2012
Downloads
12,441
9.
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
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
12,128
10.
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
Accepted Paper Series
University of Virginia - Darden School of Business
Downloads
12,064
11.
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
Working Paper Series
Harvard University, Washington University in St. Louis, Olin School of Business and University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Downloads
12,054
12.
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
Working Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
Downloads
11,812
13.
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
Accepted Paper Series
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11,225
14.
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
Accepted Paper Series
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
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
Downloads
10,968
Private Equity Performance: What Do We Know?
NBER Working Paper No. w17874
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 24 Feb 2012
Downloads
370
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10,968
15.
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
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
10,280
16.
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
Accepted Paper Series
Georgetown University - Robert Emmett McDonough School of Business, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) and University of Virginia - Darden School of Business
Downloads
9,888
17.
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
Working Paper Series
University of Utah - David Eccles School of Business, Purdue University - Krannert School of Management and University of Cambridge
Downloads
9,881
18.
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
Working Paper Series
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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9,666
19.
The Wells Fargo Cross-Selling Scandal
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Closer Look Series: Topics, Issues and Controversies in Corporate Governance No. CGRP-62 Version 2, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 17-1
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 05 Dec 2016
Last Revised: 14 Jan 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
Downloads
9,473
20.
Valuing ESG: Doing Good or Sounding Good?
NYU Stern School of Business
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 19 Mar 2020
Working Paper Series
Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA and New York University - Stern School of Business
Downloads
9,203
21.
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
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Tilburg University - Department of Finance
Downloads
9,016
22.
The Role of Boards of Directors in Corporate Governance: A Conceptual Framework & Survey
Charles A. Dice Center Working Paper No. 2008-21, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 228/2009, Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2008-03-020
Number of pages: 69
Posted: 18 Nov 2008
Last Revised: 31 Oct 2018
Working Paper Series
University of Oxford, University of California, Berkeley and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance
Downloads
8,848
23.
A Review of Tax Research
Number of pages: 138
Posted: 23 Sep 2009
Last Revised: 28 Jul 2010
Working Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
Downloads
8,608
24.
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
Accepted Paper Series
Capco Institute and Aston Business School
Downloads
8,392
25.
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
Accepted Paper Series
UCLA, University of Illinois at Chicago - Department of Finance and Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)Stockholm School of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
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
Downloads
8,183
Does the Stock Market Harm Investment Incentives?
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP7857
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 19 Jul 2010
Downloads
15
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8,183
26.
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
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
There are 3 versions of this paper
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
Downloads
8,041
Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem
NBER Working Paper No. w9813
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 05 Jul 2003
Last Revised: 25 Oct 2021
Downloads
138
Downloads
8,041
27.
From the Stockholder to the Stakeholder: How Sustainability Can Drive Financial Outperformance
Number of pages: 66
Posted: 22 Oct 2014
Last Revised: 06 Mar 2015
Working Paper Series
Oxford University - Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Arabesque Asset Management and Oxford University Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment
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8,021
28.
Responsible Investing: The ESG-Efficient Frontier
NYU Stern School of Business
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 18 Oct 2019
Last Revised: 20 Nov 2020
Working Paper Series
AQR Capital Management, LLC, AQR Capital Management, LLC and AQR Capital Management, LLC
Downloads
7,941
29.
Reading About the Financial Crisis: A 21-Book Review
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 27 Oct 2011
Last Revised: 10 Jan 2012
Working Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
Downloads
7,812
30.
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
Working Paper Series
Bocconi University - Department of Finance and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance
There are 2 versions of this paper
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
Downloads
7,795
Why Did Some Banks Perform Better During the Credit Crisis? A Cross-Country Study of the Impact of Governance and Regulation
NBER Working Paper No. w15180
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 04 Aug 2009
Last Revised: 25 Jun 2010
Downloads
151
Downloads
7,795
31.
The Evolution of Shareholder Activism in the United States
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 28 Jan 2007
Working Paper Series
University of Georgia - Department of Finance and University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance
Downloads
7,739
32.
A New Approach to CSR: Company Stakeholder Responsibility
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 30 Jul 2008
Working Paper Series
University of Virginia - Darden School of Business and CEIBS
Downloads
7,674
33.
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
Capco Institute
Downloads
7,590
34.
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
Working Paper Series
Independent and Harvard Business School
There are 3 versions of this paper
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
Downloads
7,399
Putting Integrity Into Finance: A Purely Positive Approach
Capitalism and Society, Vol. 12 [2017], Iss. 1, Art. 1
Number of pages: 91
Posted: 04 May 2017
Downloads
6,116
Putting Integrity into Finance: A Purely Positive Approach
NBER Working Paper No. w19986
Number of pages: 65
Posted: 24 Mar 2014
Last Revised: 12 Aug 2021
Downloads
173
Downloads
7,399
35.
Are U.S. Industries Becoming More Concentrated?
Forthcoming, Review of Finance, Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 19-41
Number of pages: 82
Posted: 31 May 2015
Last Revised: 11 Sep 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, York University - Schulich School of Business and The University of Hong Kong
Downloads
7,208
36.
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
Harvard University - Harvard Business School, London Business School - Department of Strategic & International Management and Harvard Business School
Downloads
7,129
37.
How Do Private Equity Investments Perform Compared to Public Equity?
Darden Business School Working Paper No. 2597259
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 23 Apr 2015
Last Revised: 09 Feb 2021
Working Paper Series
University of Virginia - Darden School of Business, University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads
7,071
38.
Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey
Financial Analysts Journal, 2018, Volume 74 Issue 3, pp. 87-103.
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 02 Mar 2017
Last Revised: 06 Feb 2020
Working Paper Series
University of Oxford - Said Business School and Harvard Business School
Downloads
7,056
39.
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
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads
6,901
40.
The Impact of Shareholder Activism on Target Companies: A Survey of Empirical Findings
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 01 Mar 2006
Working Paper Series
University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business
Downloads
6,873
41.
Optimal Capital Structure
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 20 Jan 2011
Last Revised: 15 Sep 2013
Working Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Duke University and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Downloads
6,844
42.
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
Working Paper Series
Harvard Law School and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance
There are 2 versions of this paper
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
Downloads
6,814
The State of Corporate Governance Research
NBER Working Paper No. w15537
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 24 Nov 2009
Last Revised: 16 Jun 2021
Downloads
371
Downloads
6,814
43.
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
Accepted Paper Series
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
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
Downloads
6,783
Corporate Payout Policy
Foundations and Trends in Finance, Vol. 3, No. 2-3, 2008
Number of pages: 197
Posted: 24 Jun 2010
Downloads
15
Downloads
6,783
44.
Tres sentencias judiciales con varios errores sobre la valoración de El Corte Inglés (A True Story About Civil Courts and Company Valuation)
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 20 Jan 2010
Last Revised: 16 Jan 2018
Working Paper Series
IESE Business School
Downloads
6,690
45.
Does M&A Pay? (Chapter 3)
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 14 Aug 2003
Accepted Paper Series
University of Virginia - Darden School of Business
Downloads
6,680
46.
Behind the Scenes: The Corporate Governance Preferences of Institutional Investors
Journal of Finance 71, 2016, 2905-2932
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 15 Mar 2010
Last Revised: 03 Feb 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Tilburg University - School of Law; European Banking Center (EBC), Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance
Downloads
6,563
47.
Coin-Operated Capitalism
Columbia Law Review, Vol. 119, p. 591, 2019, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 18-37
Number of pages: 104
Posted: 18 Jul 2018
Last Revised: 31 May 2019
Accepted Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolPrinceton University - Center for Information Technology Policy, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, University of Pennsylvania Law School - Student/Alumni/Adjunct and Georgetown University Law CenterUniversity of Pennsylvania - Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition
Downloads
6,554
48.
Corporate Culture: Evidence from the Field
27th Annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting Paper, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 16-49, Duke I&E Research Paper No. 2016-33
Number of pages: 116
Posted: 09 Jul 2016
Last Revised: 17 May 2021
Working Paper Series
Duke University, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Columbia Business School
There are 2 versions of this paper
Corporate Culture: Evidence from the Field
27th Annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting Paper, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 16-49, Duke I&E Research Paper No. 2016-33
Number of pages: 116
Posted: 09 Jul 2016
Last Revised: 17 May 2021
Downloads
6,410
Corporate Culture: Evidence from the Field
NBER Working Paper No. w23255
Number of pages: 79
Posted: 20 Mar 2017
Last Revised: 18 Jul 2021
Downloads
151
Downloads
6,410
49.
Madoff: A Riot of Red Flags
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 02 Feb 2009
Last Revised: 24 Jan 2012
Working Paper Series
SUNY College at Plattsburgh and Kedge Capital Fund Management
Downloads
6,355
50.
Behavioral Finance and Investor Governance
Number of pages: 64
Posted: 23 Jan 2001
Accepted Paper Series
George Washington University
Downloads
6,228
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