SSRN Corporate Law: Corporate & Takeover Law eJournal

1.

What Matters in Corporate Governance?

Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 783-827, February 2009, Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 491 (2004)

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 21 Sep 2004 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alma Cohen and Allen Ferrell

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

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 30,699

2.

The History of Corporate Governance

OXFORD HANDBOOK OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, Mike Wright, Donald Siegel, Kevin Keasey and Igor Filatotchev, eds., Oxford University Press, 2013, University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 54/2011, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 184/2012

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 22 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 20 May 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Brian R. Cheffins

University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law

Downloads 12,814

3.

Insider Trading: An Overview

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 24 Oct 1998

Working Paper Series

Stephen M. Bainbridge

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law

Downloads 10,705

4.

What is Corporate Law?

Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 300

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 27 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2017

Accepted Paper Series

Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman

Yale Law School and Harvard Law School

Downloads 10,123

5.

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

6.

The Long-Term Effects of Hedge Fund Activism

Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 802, Columbia Law Review, Vol. 115, 2015, pp. 1085-1156, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 13-66

Number of pages: 77 Posted: 07 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 02 Jul 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alon Brav and Wei Jiang

Harvard Law School, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 9,289

7.

Pay Without Performance: Overview of the Issues

Journal of Corporation Law, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 647-673, 2005, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 8-22, 2005, Academy of Management Perspectives, pp. 5-24, February 2006, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 528

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 19 Jul 2005 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried

Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School

Downloads 9,022

8.

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

Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried

Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 7,382

9.

A Plan for Addressing the Financial Crisis

The Economists' Voice, Vol. 5, No. 5, Article 6, 2008, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 620, September 2008

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 26 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 29 Jun 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Lucian A. Bebchuk

Harvard Law School

Downloads 7,225

10.

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 7,218

11.

Fallacies, Irrelevant Facts, and Myths in the Discussion of Capital Regulation: Why Bank Equity is Not Socially Expensive

Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods 2013/23, Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 161, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 13-7

Number of pages: 77 Posted: 04 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 12 Jan 2016

Working Paper Series

Anat R. Admati, Peter M. DeMarzo, Martin F. Hellwig and Paul C. Pfleiderer

Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods and Stanford Graduate School of Business

Downloads 7,118

12.

What Caused Enron?: A Capsule Social and Economic History of the 1990's

Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 214

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 29 Jan 2003

Working Paper Series

John C. Coffee Jr.

Columbia Law School

Downloads 7,089

13.

Valuation of an Expropriated Company: The Case of YPF and Repsol in Argentina

IESE Business School Working Paper No. WP-1055-E

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 17 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 22 Nov 2015

Working Paper Series

Pablo Fernandez

University of Navarra - IESE Business School

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 7,069

14.

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

Andrew W. Lo

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

Downloads 6,933

15.

The Non-Correlation Between Board Independence and Long-Term Firm Performance

Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 185

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 03 Oct 1998

Accepted Paper Series

Sanjai Bhagat and Bernard S. Black

University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Finance and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 6,878

16.

Shareholder Activism and Institutional Investors

UCLA School of Law, Law-Econ Research Paper No. 05-20

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 07 Sep 2005

Working Paper Series

Stephen M. Bainbridge

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law

Downloads 6,846

17.

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 6,753

18.

Venture Capital and the Structure of Capital Markets: Banks Versus Stock Markets

Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 47, pp. 243-277, 1998

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 11 Sep 1996

Accepted Paper Series

Ronald J. Gilson and Bernard S. Black

Stanford Law School and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 6,687

19.

Pay Without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation

Harvard University Press, 2004, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 537783

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 30 Apr 2004 Last Revised: 05 May 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried

Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School

Downloads 6,534

20.

What Courses Should Law Students Take? Harvard's Largest Employers Weigh In

HLS Program on the Legal Profession Research Paper No. 2014-12, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 14-20

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 20 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 23 Nov 2014

Accepted Paper Series

John C. Coates, IV, Jesse M. Fried and Kathryn E. Spier

Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School and Harvard University - Law School - Faculty

Downloads 5,947

21.

The Long-Term Operating Performance of European Mergers and Acquisitions

ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 137/2006, TILEC Discussion Paper No. 2006-030

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 14 Nov 2006

Working Paper Series

Marina Martynova, Sjoerd Oosting and Luc Renneboog

Cornerstone Research, Tilburg University and Tilburg University - Department of Finance

Downloads 5,816

22.

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 5,700

23.

Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 69, pp. 751-846, 2002, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 366, June 2002

Number of pages: 97 Posted: 19 Jun 2002 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Lucian A. Bebchuk, Jesse M. Fried and David I. Walker

Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School and Boston University School of Law

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 5,515

24.

The AIG Bailout

Washington and Lee Law Review, Vol. 66, p. 943, 2009

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 19 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2015

Accepted Paper Series

William K. Sjostrom Jr.

University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law

Downloads 5,416

25.

The Myth of the Shareholder Franchise

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 93, No. 3, pp. 675-732, 2007, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 567, October 2005

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 23 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 23 Jun 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Lucian A. Bebchuk

Harvard Law School

Downloads 5,331

26.

The Corporate Governance Industry

Journal of Corporation Law, Vol. 32, No. 4, Summer 2007, Ohio State Public Law Working Paper

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 18 May 2006

Accepted Paper Series

Paul Rose

Ohio State University - Moritz College of Law

Downloads 5,239

27.

Valoracion de una expropiacion: YPF y Repsol en Argentina (Valuation of an Expropriated Company: The Case of YPF and Repsol in Argentina)

IESE Business School Working Paper No. WP-1055-E

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 06 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 02 May 2016

Working Paper Series

Pablo Fernandez

University of Navarra - IESE Business School

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 5,216

28.

Cross-Country Determinants of Mergers and Acquisitions

ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 25/2003; AFA 2004 San Diego Meetings; EFA 2003 Annual Conference Paper No. 251

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 29 May 2003

Working Paper Series

Stefano Rossi and Paolo F. Volpin

Bocconi University and City University London - Faculty of Finance

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 5,086

29.

The Failure of Private Equity

Southern California Law Review, Vol. 82, p. 481, 2009

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 23 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 25 May 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Steven Davidoff Solomon

University of California, Berkeley - School of Law

Downloads 5,012

30.

The Rise of Independent Directors in the United States, 1950-2005: Of Shareholder Value and Stock Market Prices

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 74/2006, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 301, Stanford Law Review, Vol. 59, p. 1465, 2007

Number of pages: 111 Posted: 04 Sep 2006 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2008

Working Paper Series

Jeffrey N. Gordon

Columbia Law School

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,952

31.

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

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

Working Paper Series

Steven Davidoff Solomon and David T. Zaring

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

Downloads 4,882

32.

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

33.

Corporate Governance and Firm Performance

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 28 Sep 2007

Working Paper Series

Sanjai Bhagat and Brian J. Bolton

University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Finance and Portland State University - School of Business Administration

Downloads 4,742

34.

The Truth About Reverse Mergers

Entrepreneurial Business Law Journal, Vol. 2, 2008

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 09 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2008

Accepted Paper Series

William K. Sjostrom Jr.

University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law

Downloads 4,704

35.

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 4,701

36.

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

37.

European Company Law 1999-2010: Renaissance and Crisis

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 175/2011, Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 63/2010

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 14 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 27 Jan 2011

Working Paper Series

John Armour and Wolf-Georg Ringe

University of Oxford - Faculty of Law and University of Hamburg - Institute of Law & Economics

Downloads 4,322

38.

The Business Judgment Rule as Abstention Doctrine

UCLA, School of Law, Law and Econ. Research Paper No. 03-18

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 31 Jul 2003

Working Paper Series

Stephen M. Bainbridge

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law

Downloads 4,321

39.

Theories and Models of Corporate Governance

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: A SYNTHESIS OF THEORY, RESEARCH, AND PRACTICE, H. Kent Baker, Ronald Anderson, eds., John Wiley & Sons, 2010, UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 213

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 28 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Thomas Wuil Joo

University of California, Davis - School of Law

Downloads 4,292

40.

The Essential Role of Organizational Law

NYU Law and Economics Working Paper No. 00-006; Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper 284; Yale ICF Working Paper No. 00-11

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 07 Jun 2000

Working Paper Series

Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman

Yale Law School and Harvard Law School

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,259

41.

The Private Company Discount

Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 12, No. 4, Winter 2000

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 18 Dec 2000

Accepted Paper Series

Atulya Sarin, John Koeplin and Alan C. Shapiro

Santa Clara University - Department of Finance, University of San Francisco - School of Business and Management and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business

Downloads 4,162

42.

Bad and Not-So-Bad Arguments For Shareholder Primacy

Southern California Law Review, Vol. 75, p. 1189, 2002

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 19 Nov 2002

Accepted Paper Series

Lynn A. Stout

Cornell Law School - Jack G. Clarke Business Law Institute

Downloads 4,118

43.

Shareholder Wealth Effects of European Domestic and Cross-Border Takeover Bids

ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 08/2003

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 23 Jan 2003

Working Paper Series

Marc Goergen and Luc Renneboog

Cardiff University - Cardiff Business School and Tilburg University - Department of Finance

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,093

44.

The Takeover Directive as a Protectionist Tool?

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 141/2010

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 01 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 15 Jun 2010

Working Paper Series

Paul L. Davies, Edmund‐Philipp Schuster and Emilie van de Walle de Ghelcke

University of Oxford- Faculty of Law, London School of Economics - Law Department and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Downloads 4,078

45.

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 4,071

46.

Firm Value and Marketability Discounts

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 13 Apr 2001

Working Paper Series

Mukesh Bajaj, David J. Denis, Stephen P. Ferris and Atulya Sarin

LECG, LLC, University of Pittsburgh, University of Missouri at Columbia - Department of Finance and Santa Clara University - Department of Finance

Downloads 4,025

47.

Why Do Countries Matter so Much for Corporate Governance?

ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 50/2004, Charles A. Dice Center Working Paper No. 2004-16 and Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2006-03-008

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 25 Aug 2004

Working Paper Series

Craig Doidge, George Andrew Karolyi and René M. Stulz

University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, Cornell University - Johnson Graduate School of Management and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,000

48.

Controlling Controlling Shareholders

Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 228; Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 262

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 17 Jun 2003

Working Paper Series

Ronald J. Gilson and Jeffrey N. Gordon

Stanford Law School and Columbia Law School

Downloads 3,949

49.

Corporate Law in the UK after Recent Reforms: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

CURRENT LEGAL PROBLEMS, Vol. 63, pp 315-374, Oxford University Press, 2010

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 08 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 18 Jan 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Arad Reisberg

Brunel University London

Downloads 3,915

50.

The Relation between Earnings Management Using Real Activities Manipulation and Future Performance: Evidence from Meeting Earnings Benchmarks

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 13 Oct 2005 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2012

Working Paper Series

Katherine Gunny

University of Colorado at Denver

Downloads 3,859

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