SSRN Corporate Law: Law & Finance 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 30,701

2.

Economic Consequences of Financial Reporting and Disclosure Regulation: A Review and Suggestions for Future Research

Number of pages: 91 Posted: 13 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 07 May 2008

Working Paper Series

Christian Leuz and Peter D. Wysocki

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Boston University Questrom School of Business

Downloads 20,584

3.

Global Accounting Convergence and the Potential Adoption of IFRS by the United States: An Analysis of Economic and Policy Factors

Number of pages: 104 Posted: 11 Mar 2009

Working Paper Series

Luzi Hail, Christian Leuz and Peter D. Wysocki

University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Boston University Questrom School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 11,618

4.

Does Corporate Governance Predict Firms' Market Values? Evidence from Korea

post-publication version, published in Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Vol. 22, No. 2, Fall 2006, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 86/2005, KDI School of Pub Policy & Management Paper No. 02-04, McCombs Research Paper Series No. 02-05, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 237, U of Texas law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 26

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 20 Jan 2005 Last Revised: 18 Jun 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Bernard S. Black, Hasung Jang and Woochan Kim

Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, Korea University - Department of Finance and Korea University Business School

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 10,854

5.

International Accounting Standards and Accounting Quality

Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 1976

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 11 Apr 2005

Working Paper Series

Mary E. Barth, Wayne R. Landsman and Mark H. Lang

Stanford University - Graduate School of Business, University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Downloads 10,841

6.

Risk Management and Corporate Governance: The Case of Enron

Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 35, No. 1157, 2003

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 05 Jan 2004

Accepted Paper Series

Robert Rosen

University of Miami - School of Law

Downloads 10,091

7.

Did Fair-Value Accounting Contribute to the Financial Crisis?

Chicago Booth Research Paper 09-38, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 266/2009, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 15 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2009

Working Paper Series

Christian Laux and Christian Leuz

Vienna University of Economics and Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 9,834

8.

The Promise and Perils of Credit Derivatives

University of Cincinnati Law Review, Vol. 75, p. 1019, 2007, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 06-22, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 06-36, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 07-74

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 13 Sep 2006 Last Revised: 20 Mar 2010

Accepted Paper Series

David A. Skeel Jr. and Frank Partnoy

University of Pennsylvania Law School and University of San Diego School of Law

Downloads 9,642

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

Lucian A. Bebchuk and Holger Spamann

Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School

Downloads 9,224

10.

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

Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alma Cohen and Holger Spamann

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

Downloads 9,054

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

Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried

Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School

Downloads 9,022

12.

How and Why Credit Rating Agencies are Not Like Other Gatekeepers

FINANCIAL GATEKEEPERS: CAN THEY PROTECT INVESTORS?, Yasuyuki Fuchita, Robert E. Litan, eds., Brookings Institution Press and the Nomura Institute of Capital Markets Research, 2006, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 07-46

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 04 May 2006

Accepted Paper Series

Frank Partnoy

University of San Diego School of Law

Downloads 8,747

13.

Systemic Risk

Duke Law School Legal Studies Paper No. 163, Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 97, No. 1, 2008

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 19 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 26 Sep 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Steven L. Schwarcz

Duke University School of Law

Downloads 8,360

14.

Payout Policy in the 21st Century

Tuck Contemporary Corporate Finance Issues III Conference Paper

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 03 Aug 2004

Working Paper Series

Alon Brav, Campbell R. Harvey, John R. Graham and Roni Michaely

Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, Duke University and [email protected] Tech, Cornell University

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 7,744

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

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 7,383

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

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 7,091

19.

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

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 7,019

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

Stephen M. Bainbridge

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

Downloads 6,847

21.

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

22.

The Evolution of Shareholder Activism in the United States

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 28 Jan 2007

Working Paper Series

Stuart Gillan and Laura T. Starks

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

Downloads 6,149

23.

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

Werner Erhard and Michael C. Jensen

Independent and SSRN

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 5,958

24.

Optimal Capital Structure

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

Working Paper Series

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 5,768

25.

Capital Structure, Payout Policy, and Financial Flexibility

Marshall School of Business Working Paper No. FBE 02-06

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 17 Jul 2006 Last Revised: 20 May 2009

Working Paper Series

Harry DeAngelo and Linda DeAngelo

University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department

Downloads 5,627

26.

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

27.

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

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 5,352

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Enron and the Use and Abuse of Special Purpose Entities in Corporate Structures

University of Cincinnati Law Review, Vol. 70, p. 1309, 2006, Duke Law School Legal Studies Paper No. 28

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 12 May 2002

Accepted Paper Series

Steven L. Schwarcz

Duke University School of Law

Downloads 5,157

31.

Equity Premia Around the World

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 08 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 19 Mar 2016

Working Paper Series

Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton

University of Cambridge - Judge Business School, London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting and London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting

Downloads 5,112

32.

SOX after Ten Years: A Multidisciplinary Review

Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 758

Number of pages: 86 Posted: 23 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 29 May 2014

Working Paper Series

John C. Coates, IV and Suraj Srinivasan

Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 5,072

33.

Spam Works: Evidence from Stock Touts and Corresponding Market Activity

Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2006-11, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 135, Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 43/2006

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 27 Jul 2006

Working Paper Series

Laura Frieder and Jonathan L. Zittrain

Purdue University - Krannert School of Management and Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Downloads 5,034

34.

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

35.

The Relation Between Auditors' Fees for Non-Audit Services and Earnings Management

MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4330-02

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 20 Jan 2002

Working Paper Series

Richard M. Frankel, Marilyn F. Johnson and Karen K. Nelson

Washington University in Saint Louis - Olin Business School, Michigan State University - Department of Accounting & Information Systems and Texas Christian University - Department of Accounting

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,961

36.

A Team Production Theory of Corporate Law

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 85, No. 2, pp. 248-328, March 1999

Number of pages: 83 Posted: 23 Jul 2003

Accepted Paper Series

Margaret M. Blair and Lynn A. Stout

Vanderbilt University - Law School and Cornell Law School - Jack G. Clarke Business Law Institute

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,913

37.

FinTech, RegTech and the Reconceptualization of Financial Regulation

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business, Forthcoming, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2016/035

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 05 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Douglas W. Arner, Janos Nathan Barberis and Ross P. Buckley

University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Law and University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law

Downloads 4,874

38.

Security Offerings

HANDBOOK OF CORPORATE FINANCE: EMPIRICAL CORPORATE FINANCE, Vol. 1, B. E. Eckbo, ed., Chapter 6, pp. 233-373, Elsevier/North-Holland Handbook of Finance Series, 2007, Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 2005-28

Number of pages: 168 Posted: 06 Dec 2005 Last Revised: 03 May 2009

Accepted Paper Series

B. Espen Eckbo, Ronald W. Masulis and Oyvind Norli

Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, University of New South Wales - Australian School of Business and BI Norwegian Business School - Department of Financial Economics

Downloads 4,873

39.

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

40.

Adopting a Label: Heterogeneity in the Economic Consequences Around IAS/IFRS Adoptions

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 12 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2013

Working Paper Series

Holger Daske, Luzi Hail, Christian Leuz and Rodrigo S. Verdi

University of Mannheim - Accounting and Taxation, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,756

41.

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

42.

The Importance of Reporting Incentives: Earnings Management in European Private and Public Firms

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 08 Jan 2004

Working Paper Series

David Burgstahler, Luzi Hail and Christian Leuz

University of Washington, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,634

43.

Financial Regulation, Behavioural Finance, and the Global Credit Crisis: In Search of a New Regulatory Model

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 13 May 2008 Last Revised: 30 Mar 2009

Working Paper Series

Emilios Avgouleas

University of Edinburgh - School of Law

Downloads 4,486

44.

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

45.

Risk Management and Corporate Governance: The Importance of Independence and Financial Knowledge for the Board and the Audit Committee

HEC Montreal Working Paper No. 05-03

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 07 Jun 2005

Working Paper Series

Georges Dionne and Thouraya Triki

HEC Montreal - Department of Finance and HEC Montreal

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,452

46.

Earnings Management and Value Relevance During the Mandatory Transition from Local GAAPs to IFRS in Europe

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 29 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2013

Working Paper Series

Vedran Capkun, Anne Jeny-Cazavan, Thomas Jeanjean and Lawrence A. Weiss

HEC Paris - Accounting and Management Control Department, ESSEC Business School, ESSEC Business School - Department of Accounting and Management Control and Tufts University - The Fletcher School

Downloads 4,383

47.

International Differences in the Cost of Equity Capital: Do Legal Institutions and Securities Regulation Matter?

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 15/2003, Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research Working Paper No. 17-04, AFA 2005 Philadelphia Meetings

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 21 Dec 2004

Working Paper Series

Luzi Hail and Christian Leuz

University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,357

48.

Earnings Quality and the Equity Risk Premium: A Benchmark Model

Contemporary Accounting Research, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 833-877, Fall 2006

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 15 Nov 2005

Accepted Paper Series

Kenton K. Yee

Mellon Capital Management

Downloads 4,354

49.

Corporate Governance and Innovation - Venture Capital, Joint Ventures, and Family Businesses

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 65/2006

Number of pages: 73 Posted: 04 Apr 2006

Working Paper Series

Joseph A. McCahery and Erik P. M. Vermeulen

Tilburg University - School of Law; European Banking Center (EBC) and Tilburg University - Department of Business Law

Downloads 4,303

50.

'Competitiveness' Has Nothing to Do With It

144 Tax Notes 1055 (September 1, 2014), USC Legal Studies Research Papers Series No. 14-34, USC CLASS Research Paper No. 14-26

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 07 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 11 Sep 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Edward D. Kleinbard

USC Gould School of Law

Downloads 4,270

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