1.
Separation of Ownership and Control
Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998, and Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 26, June 1983
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 29 Nov 1998
Accepted Paper Series
University of Chicago - Finance and Harvard Business School
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35,893
2.
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
Harvard Law School, Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics and Harvard Law School
There are 2 versions of this paper
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
Downloads
32,775
What Matters in Corporate Governance?
The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 22, Issue 2, pp. 783-827, 2009
Posted: 25 Jan 2009
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32,775
3.
Executive Compensation
Number of pages: 91
Posted: 19 May 1999
Working Paper Series
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
Downloads
19,510
4.
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
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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15,670
5.
Agency Problems and Residual Claims
Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998; Journal of Law & Economics, Vol. 26, June 1983
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 29 Nov 1998
Accepted Paper Series
University of Chicago - Finance and Harvard Business School
Downloads
14,427
6.
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
Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
12,413
7.
The End of History for Corporate Law
Yale Law School Working Paper No. 235; NYU Working Paper No. 013; Harvard Law School Discussion Paper No. 280; Yale SOM Working Paper No. ICF - 00-09
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 10 Mar 2000
Working Paper Series
Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
11,888
8.
Insider Trading: An Overview
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 24 Oct 1998
Working Paper Series
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
Downloads
11,697
9.
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
Harvard Law School, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
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
Downloads
11,295
The Long-Term Effects of Hedge Fund Activism
NBER Working Paper No. w21227
Number of pages: 85
Posted: 08 Jun 2015
Last Revised: 14 Jun 2015
Downloads
50
Downloads
11,295
10.
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, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 134/2009
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 21 Jul 2009
Last Revised: 10 Dec 2018
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
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11,294
11.
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
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
9,672
12.
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
8,303
13.
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
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
7,902
14.
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
7,717
Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem
NBER Working Paper No. w9813
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 05 Jul 2003
Last Revised: 26 Aug 2003
Downloads
108
Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem
CEPR Discussion Paper No. 3961
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 27 Aug 2003
Downloads
54
Downloads
7,717
15.
Ownership Structure and Corporate Performance
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 11 Apr 2001
Working Paper Series
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics and New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
There are 2 versions of this paper
Ownership Structure and Corporate Performance
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 11 Apr 2001
Downloads
7,644
Ownership Structure and Corporate Performance
Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol. 7, pp. 209-233, 2001
Posted: 31 Mar 2002
Downloads
7,644
16.
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: 17 Nov 2012
Last Revised: 17 Oct 2017
Working Paper Series
University of Navarra - IESE Business School
There are 2 versions of this paper
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: 17 Nov 2012
Last Revised: 17 Oct 2017
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7,559
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: 16 Jan 2018
Downloads
5,891
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7,559
17.
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
University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Finance and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
There are 2 versions of this paper
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
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7,532
The Non-Correlation between Board Independence And Long-Term Firm Performance
As published in Journal of Corporation Law, Vol. 27, pp. 231-273, 2002
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 03 Jan 2003
Downloads
706
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7,532
18.
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) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads
7,394
19.
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
Harvard Law School
Downloads
7,316
20.
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
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
Downloads
7,304
21.
Private Benefits in Public Offerings: Tax Receivable Agreements in IPOs
Vanderbilt Law Review, 2018, BYU Law Research Paper No. 17-24
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 06 Sep 2017
Last Revised: 03 May 2018
Working Paper Series
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
Downloads
7,284
22.
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
Columbia Law School
Downloads
7,259
23.
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
Stanford Law School and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
There are 2 versions of this paper
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
Downloads
7,103
Venture Capital and the Structure of Capital Markets: Banks Versus Stock Markets
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership Historical Research Reference in Entrepreneurship
Posted: 17 Nov 2009
Downloads
7,103
24.
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
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School and Harvard University - Law School - Faculty
Downloads
6,970
25.
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
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
Downloads
6,924
26.
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
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
6,822
27.
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
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Tilburg University and Tilburg University - Department of Finance
Downloads
6,608
28.
Corporate Ownership Around the World
Harvard Institute of Economic Research Paper No. 1840
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 31 Jul 1998
Working Paper Series
Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business, SKEMA Business School and Harvard University - Department of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
Corporate Ownership Around the World
Harvard Institute of Economic Research Paper No. 1840
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 31 Jul 1998
Downloads
6,530
Corporate Ownership Around the World
NBER Working Paper No. w6625
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 04 Aug 2000
Last Revised: 10 Oct 2010
Downloads
410
Downloads
6,530
29.
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
University of Oxford Faculty of Law and City University London - Faculty of Finance
Downloads
5,955
30.
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: 16 Jan 2018
Working Paper Series
University of Navarra - IESE Business School
There are 2 versions of this paper
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: 17 Nov 2012
Last Revised: 17 Oct 2017
Downloads
7,559
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: 16 Jan 2018
Downloads
5,891
Downloads
5,891
31.
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
University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law
Downloads
5,670
32.
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
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School and Boston University School of Law
There are 3 versions of this paper
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
Downloads
5,613
Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation
NBER Working Paper No. w9068
Number of pages: 101
Posted: 20 Jul 2002
Last Revised: 27 Oct 2009
Downloads
134
Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation
CEPR Discussion Paper No. 3558
Number of pages: 103
Posted: 30 Oct 2002
Downloads
33
Downloads
5,613
33.
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
Harvard Law School
Downloads
5,606
34.
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
Yale Law School and Columbia Law School
Downloads
5,403
35.
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
Ohio State University - Moritz College of Law
Downloads
5,370
36.
The Paradox of Credit Ratings
U San Diego Law & Econ Research Paper No. 20
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 08 Oct 2001
Working Paper Series
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
Downloads
5,339
37.
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
University of Nebraska College of Law
Downloads
5,319
38.
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
Bocconi University and City University London - Faculty of Finance
There are 2 versions of this paper
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
Downloads
5,275
Cross-Country Determinants of Mergers and Acquisitions
CEPR Discussion Paper No. 3889
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 20 Jun 2003
Downloads
65
Downloads
5,275
39.
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
Columbia Law School
There are 2 versions of this paper
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
Downloads
5,263
The Rise of Independent Directors in the United States, 1950-2005: Of Shareholder Value and Stock Market Prices
Stanford Law Review, Vol. 59, p. 1465, 2007, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 323
Number of pages: 107
Posted: 23 Jan 2008
Downloads
474
Downloads
5,263
40.
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
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
Downloads
5,159
41.
Corporate Governance and Firm Performance
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 28 Sep 2007
Working Paper Series
University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Finance and IMD Business School, Global Board Center
Downloads
5,082
42.
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
University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law
Downloads
5,027
43.
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
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and University of Pennsylvania - Legal Studies Department
Downloads
4,967
44.
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
University of Texas at Austin - School of Law and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads
4,949
45.
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
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law and University of Hamburg - Institute of Law & Economics
Downloads
4,935
46.
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
University of California, Davis - School of Law
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4,849
47.
The Rise of Dispersed Ownership: The Role of Law in the Separation of Ownership and Control
Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 182
Number of pages: 95
Posted: 12 Jan 2001
Working Paper Series
Columbia Law School
Downloads
4,787
48.
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
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
Downloads
4,711
49.
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
Cornell Law School - Jack G. Clarke Business Law Institute (deceased)
Downloads
4,694
50.
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
Harvard Law School
Downloads
4,589
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