SSRN Corporate Law: Corporate Governance 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 30,781

2.

Remuneration: Where We've Been, How We Got to Here, What are the Problems, and How to Fix Them

Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 04-28; ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 44/2004

Number of pages: 116 Posted: 05 Jul 2004

Working Paper Series

Michael C. Jensen, Kevin J. Murphy and Eric G. Wruck

SSRN, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Ohio State University (OSU) - Fisher College of Business

Downloads 23,818

3.

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 12,940

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 10,889

5.

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 10,253

6.

Enron and the Dark Side of Shareholder Value

Tulane Law Review, May 2002, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 79 Posted: 02 Mar 2002

Accepted Paper Series

William W. Bratton

University of Pennsylvania Law School

Downloads 10,175

7.

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 10,128

8.

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 9,736

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

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 9,377

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 9,086

11.

Corporate Governance in China: An Overview

Donald C. Clarke, "Corporate Governance in China: An Overview", China Economic Review, vol. 14, 2003, pp. 494-507

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 14 Aug 2003 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Donald C. Clarke

George Washington University Law School

Downloads 8,642

12.

The State of U.S. Corporate Governance: What's Right and What's Wrong?

ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 23/2003

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 08 Sep 2003

Working Paper Series

Bengt R. Holmström and Steven N. Kaplan

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 8,087

13.

Beyond Profit: Rethinking Corporate Social Responsibility and Greenwashing After the BP Oil Disaster

Tulane Law Review, Vol. 85, No. 4, p. 983, 2011

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 02 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2013

Working Paper Series

Miriam A. Cherry and Judd F. Sneirson

Saint Louis University - School of Law and Savannah Law School

Downloads 7,908

14.

Market Reaction to the Adoption of IFRS in Europe

Accounting Review, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 19 May 2006 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Chris Armstrong, Mary E. Barth, Alan D. Jagolinzer and Edward J. Riedl

University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business, University of Cambridge Judge Business School and Boston University - Questrom School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 7,636

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 7,399

16.

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 7,124

17.

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

Kevin J. Murphy

University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business

Downloads 7,114

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: 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 7,080

19.

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 6,978

20.

Earnings Quality: Evidence from the Field

Number of pages: 73 Posted: 10 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2014

Working Paper Series

Ilia D. Dichev, John R. Graham, Campbell R. Harvey and Shivaram Rajgopal

Emory University - Department of Accounting, Duke University, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Columbia Business School

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 6,810

21.

Financial Scandals and the Role of Private Enforcement: The Parmalat Case

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 40/2005

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 27 May 2005

Working Paper Series

Guido Ferrarini and Paolo Giudici

University of Genoa - Law Department and Centre for Law and Finance and Free University of Bozen, Bolzano - School of Economics and Management

Downloads 6,713

22.

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

Lucian A. Bebchuk and Michael S. Weisbach

Harvard Law School and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 6,275

23.

The Changing of the Boards: The Impact on Firm Valuation of Mandated Female Board Representation

Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2012, vol. 127(1): 137-197.

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 21 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 16 Jun 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Kenneth R. Ahern and Amy K. Dittmar

University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - The Stephen M. Ross School of Business

Downloads 6,227

24.

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 5,520

25.

Behind the Scenes: The Corporate Governance Preferences of Institutional Investors

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 15 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 07 Jul 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Joseph A. McCahery, Zacharias Sautner and Laura T. Starks

Tilburg University - School of Law; European Banking Center (EBC), Frankfurt School of Finance & Management gemeinnützige GmbH and University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance

Downloads 5,339

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 5,253

27.

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 5,149

28.

The Dark Side of Universal Banking: Financial Conglomerates and the Origins of the Subprime Financial Crisis

Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 41, No. 4, 2009, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 468, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 468

Number of pages: 89 Posted: 13 May 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Arthur E. Wilmarth Jr.

George Washington University Law School

Downloads 5,142

29.

Corporate Governance and Accounting Scandals

AFA 2004 San Diego Meetings

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 17 Jan 2003

Working Paper Series

Anup Agrawal and Sahiba Chadha

University of Alabama - Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration and University of Alabama - Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,971

30.

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 4,758

31.

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 4,480

32.

Diversity on Corporate Boards: How Much Difference Does Difference Make?

Delaware Journal of Corporate Law (DJCL), Vol. 39, No. 2 pp. 377-426, 2014

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 01 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 11 Dec 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Deborah Rhode and Amanda K. Packel

Stanford Law School and Stanford Law School

Downloads 4,353

33.

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 4,330

34.

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 4,316

35.

Transparency and Corporate Governance

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 22 Jan 2007

Working Paper Series

Benjamin E. Hermalin and Michael S. Weisbach

University of California, Berkeley and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,213

36.

CEO Compensation

Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 77

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 01 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 29 Nov 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Carola Frydman and Dirk Jenter

Northwestern University and London School of Economics & Political Science

There are 4 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,165

37.

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 4,156

38.

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 4,097

39.

The International Politics of IFRS Harmonization

Accounting, Economics and Law 3, No. 2 (April 2013), Harvard Business School Accounting & Management Unit Working Paper No. 11-132

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 02 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 08 May 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Karthik Ramanna

Harvard University - Harvard Business School

Downloads 4,096

40.

The Reasons Behind a Corporate Collapse: A Case Study of Enron

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 06 Sep 2011

Working Paper Series

Dr. Asif Khan

University of Malakand

Downloads 4,060

41.

What Determines Corporate Transparency?

Journal of Accounting Research 2004 , 42 (2)

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 30 Aug 2003 Last Revised: 07 Sep 2017

Working Paper Series

Robert M. Bushman, Joseph D. Piotroski and Abbie J. Smith

University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

Downloads 3,950

42.

The Role of Human Resource Management in Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions

International Journal of Human Resource Management, Vol. 15, No. 8, pp. 1357-1372, December 2004

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 21 Sep 2004

Accepted Paper Series

Ruth V. Aguilera and John Dencker

and Northeastern University - D'Amore-McKim

Downloads 3,947

43.

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 3,928

44.

Multinational Corporations, Transnational Law: The United Nation's Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations as Harbinger of Corporate Responsibility in International Law

Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Vol. 37, 2005

Number of pages: 92 Posted: 05 Apr 2005

Accepted Paper Series

Larry Catá Backer

Pennsylvania State University, Penn State Law

Downloads 3,847

45.

Corporate Social Responsibility Beyond Law, Through Law, for Law

U. of Edinburgh School of Law Working Paper No. 2009/03

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 28 Mar 2009

Working Paper Series

Doreen McBarnet

University of Edinburgh - School of Law

Downloads 3,817

46.

Agency Problems and Legal Strategies

THE ANATOMY OF CORPORATE LAW: A COMPARATIVE AND FUNCTIONAL APPROACH, R. Kraakman, P. Davies, H. Hansmann, G. Hertig, K. Hopt, H. Kanda, and E. Rock, Oxford University Press, pp. 21-31, 2004

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 13 Dec 2004

Accepted Paper Series

Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman

Yale Law School and Harvard Law School

Downloads 3,804

47.

Corporate Governance Convergence: Evidence from Takeover Regulation Reforms

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 33/2005

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 22 Apr 2005

Working Paper Series

Marc Goergen, Marina Martynova and Luc Renneboog

Cardiff University - Cardiff Business School, Cornerstone Research and Tilburg University - Department of Finance

Downloads 3,804

48.

Corporate Governance Failures. To What Extent is Parmalat a Particularly Italian Case?

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 13 Jul 2004

Working Paper Series

Andrea Melis

University of Cagliari

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,723

49.

In Defense of the Shareholder Wealth Maximization Norm

Washington & Lee Law Review, Vol. 50, 1993

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 21 Mar 2002

Accepted Paper Series

Stephen M. Bainbridge

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

Downloads 3,655

50.

Executive Compensation at Fannie Mae: A Case Study of Perverse Incentives, Nonperformance Pay, and Camouflage

Journal of Corporation Law, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 807-822, 2005, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 653125, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 505, February 2005

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 02 Feb 2005 Last Revised: 05 May 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried

Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School

Downloads 3,654

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