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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
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Eugene F. Fama and Michael C. Jensen
University of Chicago - Finance and Harvard Business School
Downloads 38,445
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
Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alma Cohen and Allen Ferrell
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School

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Downloads 34,896
3.

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
Michael Klausner, Michael Ohlrogge and Emily Ruan
Stanford Law School, New York University School of Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 25,931
4.

Executive Compensation

Number of pages: 91 Posted: 19 May 1999
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Kevin J. Murphy
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
Downloads 20,426
5.

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 18,991
6.

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
Eugene F. Fama and Michael C. Jensen
University of Chicago - Finance and Harvard Business School
Downloads 15,234
7.

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 University - Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 14,930
8.

The End of History for Corporate Law

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 10 Mar 2000
Working Paper Series
Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman
Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 13,552
9.

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
John Armour, Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 13,065
10.

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

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Downloads 12,817
11.

Insider Trading: An Overview

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 24 Oct 1998
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Stephen M. Bainbridge
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
Downloads 12,601
12.

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 10,312
13.

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
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Tilburg University - Department of Finance
Downloads 8,939
14.

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
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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 8,842
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
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Sanjai Bhagat and Bernard S. Black
University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Finance and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law

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Downloads 8,130
16.

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

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Downloads 7,994
17.

Ownership Structure and Corporate Performance

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 11 Apr 2001
Working Paper Series
Harold Demsetz and Belen Villalonga
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics and New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business

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Downloads 7,964
18.

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: 02 Jun 2019
Working Paper Series
Pablo Fernandez
IESE Business School

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Downloads 7,871
19.

Shareholder Activism and Institutional Investors

UCLA School of Law, Law-Econ Research Paper No. 05-20
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 07 Sep 2005
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Stephen M. Bainbridge
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
Downloads 7,860
20.

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) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
Downloads 7,774
21.

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 7,696
22.

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

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Downloads 7,578
23.

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

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 29 Jan 2003
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John C. Coffee
Columbia Law School
Downloads 7,471
24.

The Illusory Promise of Stakeholder Governance

Cornell Law Review, Volume 106, 2020, pp. 91-178, Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No.1052, Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance Working Paper 2020-1
Number of pages: 81 Posted: 27 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 12 Feb 2021
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Roberto Tallarita
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 7,429
25.

Pay Without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation

Harvard University Press, 2004
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 30 Apr 2004 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 7,409
26.

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 7,404
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
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Marina Martynova, Sjoerd Oosting and Luc Renneboog
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Tilburg University and Tilburg University - Department of Finance
Downloads 7,400
28.

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
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Gladriel Shobe
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
Downloads 7,343
29.

Corporate Ownership Around the World

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 31 Jul 1998
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Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez de Silanes and Andrei Shleifer
Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business, SKEMA Business School and Harvard University - Department of Economics

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Downloads 7,105
30.

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
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Klaus J. Hopt
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
Downloads 7,067
31.

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 6,391
32.

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
Pablo Fernandez
IESE Business School

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Downloads 6,325
33.

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 6,142
34.

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
University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law
Downloads 5,959
35.

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 5,905
36.

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

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Downloads 5,705
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
C. Steven Bradford
University of Nebraska College of Law
Downloads 5,629
38.

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

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Downloads 5,588
39.

Bad and Not-so-Bad Arguments for Shareholder Primacy

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 19 Nov 2002
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Lynn A. Stout
Cornell Law School - Jack G. Clarke Business Law Institute (deceased)
Downloads 5,547
40.

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
University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law
Downloads 5,524
41.

The Paradox of Credit Ratings

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 08 Oct 2001
Working Paper Series
Frank Partnoy
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
Downloads 5,518
42.

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 5,460
43.

Cross-Country Determinants of Mergers and Acquisitions

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

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Downloads 5,444
44.

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 5,399
45.

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 5,372
46.

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 University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Downloads 5,295
47.

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 5,224
48.

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 5,202
49.

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
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Paul L. Davies, Edmund 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 5,187
50.

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 5,096