1.
The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Methodology and Analytical Issues
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 5430
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 24 Sep 2010
Working Paper Series
Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and World Bank Institute
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64,037
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
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Boston University Questrom School of Business
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22,649
3.
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
11,457
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
61
Downloads
11,457
4.
Corporate Social Responsibility - an Economic and Financial Framework
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 05 Jan 2005
Working Paper Series
Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics
Downloads
11,112
5.
The Concept and the Rule of Law
Georgia Law Review, Forthcoming, NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 08-50
Number of pages: 67
Posted: 25 Sep 2008
Last Revised: 18 Nov 2008
Accepted Paper Series
New York University School of Law
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7,501
6.
An Aid-Institutions Paradox? A Review Essay on Aid Dependency and State Building in Sub-Saharan Africa
Center for Global Development Working Paper No. 74, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies Working Paper No. 11-05
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 03 Dec 2005
Working Paper Series
Center for Global Development, Birk Consulting and Cornell University
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6,767
7.
Hedge Fund Activism, Corporate Governance, and Firm Performance
Journal of Finance, Vol. 63, p. 1729, 2008, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 139/2006, Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 07-28, FDIC Center for Financial Research Working Paper No. 2008-06
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 05 Apr 2007
Last Revised: 09 Nov 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics, Vanderbilt University - Law School and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
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6,678
8.
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
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5,628
9.
The Case Against Corporate Social Responsibility
Goldman School of Public Policy Working Paper No. GSPP08-003
Number of pages: 63
Posted: 25 Aug 2008
Last Revised: 03 Sep 2008
Working Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRN
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5,086
10.
Resource Based View (RBV) of Competitive Advantages: Importance, Issues and Implications
KHOJ Journal of Indian Management Research and Practices, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp 2-12, May-August 2009
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 18 Nov 2009
Last Revised: 16 Jan 2013
Accepted Paper Series
The Icfai Business School (IBS), Ahmedabad
Downloads
5,073
11.
Human Nature and Institutional Analysis
In E. Brousseau and J.-M. Glachant, eds., New Institutional Economics: A Guidebook, 2008, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, pp. 81-99
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 28 Nov 2005
Last Revised: 23 Jul 2018
Working Paper Series
Pompeu Fabra University - Department of Economics and Business
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4,867
12.
Can't We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World
MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 12-22
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 21 Aug 2012
Working Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Harvard University - Department of Government and Paris School of Economics (PSE)
There are 2 versions of this paper
Can't We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World
MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 12-22
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 21 Aug 2012
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4,754
Can't We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP9113
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 28 Sep 2012
Downloads
6
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4,754
13.
Digital Currencies: Principles, Trends, Opportunities, and Risks
Number of pages: 110
Posted: 12 Sep 2015
Last Revised: 13 Jan 2016
Working Paper Series
UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies
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4,537
14.
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
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
There are 2 versions of this paper
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
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4,488
International Differences in the Cost of Equity Capital: Do Legal Institutions and Securities Regulation Matter?
Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 485-531, 2006
Posted: 17 Jan 2006
Last Revised: 20 Nov 2011
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4,488
15.
The Political Economy of Black Panther's Wakanda
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 02 Mar 2018
Working Paper Series
James Madison University- Department of Economics
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4,387
16.
Making of A Successful Entrepreneur: Anatomy of an Entrepreneur Part II
Kauffman Foundation Small Research Projects Research Paper No. 2
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 16 Nov 2009
Working Paper Series
Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization, Pratt School of Engineering, University of Akron, University of Southern California and Duke University - Pratt School of Engineering
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4,192
17.
The Triple Helix -- University-Industry-Government Relations: A Laboratory for Knowledge Based Economic Development
EASST Review, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 14-19, 1995
Number of pages: 9
Posted: 15 Aug 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford University - H-STAR Institute and University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR)
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3,983
18.
Does Corporate Social Responsibility Lead to Superior Financial Performance? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 14 Sep 2012
Last Revised: 27 Oct 2013
Working Paper Series
Boston University
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3,742
19.
The Digital Learning Challenge: Obstacles to Educational Uses of Copyrighted Material in the Digital Age
Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2006-09
Number of pages: 117
Posted: 10 Aug 2006
Working Paper Series
University of Minnesota Law School and Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
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3,644
20.
The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins
Journal of Economic Literature, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 92
Posted: 09 Nov 2007
Accepted Paper Series
Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business, SKEMA Business School and Harvard University - Department of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins
Journal of Economic Literature, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 92
Posted: 09 Nov 2007
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3,470
The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins
NBER Working Paper No. w13608
Number of pages: 93
Posted: 27 Nov 2007
Last Revised: 08 Sep 2010
Downloads
127
Downloads
3,470
21.
Economic Analysis of Law
Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 316, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 536
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 29 Nov 2005
Working Paper Series
Stanford Law School and Harvard Law School
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3,469
22.
Stakeholder Influence Capacity and the Variability of Financial Returns to Corporate Social Responsibility
Academy of Management Review, October 2005
Number of pages: 55
Posted: 23 Nov 2005
Accepted Paper Series
Rutgers Business School, Newark & New Brunswick
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3,426
23.
Case Study of the Bank of America and Merrill Lynch Merger
U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2010-21
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 28 Mar 2010
Last Revised: 22 Sep 2015
Accepted Paper Series
University of Florida - Levin College of Law
Downloads
3,387
24.
The Institutions of Corporate Governance
Handbook of New Institutional Economics (Claude Ménard & Mary M. Shirley, eds.) (Kluwer, 2005), Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 488,
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 29 Oct 2004
Last Revised: 27 Aug 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School
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3,326
25.
Different Approaches to Corporate Reporting Regulation: How Jurisdictions Differ and Why
Chicago Booth Initiative on Global Markets Research Paper No. 53, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 156/2010
Number of pages: 68
Posted: 30 Mar 2010
Last Revised: 31 May 2010
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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3,284
26.
The Elusive Quest for Global Governance Standards
University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 157, pp. 1263-1317, 2009, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 633
Number of pages: 55
Posted: 08 Apr 2009
Last Revised: 15 Apr 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School and Tel Aviv University Buchman Faculty of Law; ECGI
Downloads
3,235
27.
Disrupting Governance: The New Institutional Economics of Distributed Ledger Technology
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 22 Jul 2016
Working Paper Series
RMIT University - School of Economics, Finance and Marketing, Université Paris II - Panthéon-Assas and RMIT University
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3,137
28.
An Introduction to IAD and the Language of the Ostrom Workshop: A Simple Guide to a Complex Framework for the Analysis of Institutions and Their Development
Policy Studies Journal, March 2011, Indiana University-Bloomington: School of Public & Environmental Affairs Research Paper Series No. 2011-02-01
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 17 Feb 2011
Last Revised: 22 Jul 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Indiana University Bloomington - Department of Political Science
Downloads
3,136
29.
Regulating a Revolution: From Regulatory Sandboxes to Smart Regulation
23 Fordham Journal of Corporate and Financial Law 31-103 (2017), European Banking Institute Working Paper Series 2017 - No. 11, University of Luxembourg Law Working Paper No. 006/2017, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2017/019, UNSW Law Research Paper No. 17-71, Center for Business and Corporate Law (CBC) Working Paper Series 001/2017
Number of pages: 67
Posted: 19 Aug 2017
Last Revised: 13 Jul 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Universite du Luxembourg - Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance, University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Law and The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Law
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3,135
30.
Productivity Through Coffee Breaks: Changing Social Networks by Changing Break Structure
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 11 Apr 2010
Working Paper Series
MIT - Media Laboratory, MIT - Media Laboratory, MIT - Media Laboratory and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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2,948
31.
Gender, Feminism, and Death: Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
Susan M. Wolf, FEMINISM & BIOETHICS: BEYOND REPRODUCTION, pp. 282-317, New York: Oxford University Press, 1996
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 11 Jan 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of Minnesota Law School
Downloads
2,910
32.
Transaction Cost Economics
Number of pages: 56
Posted: 13 Mar 2012
Last Revised: 14 Apr 2012
Working Paper Series
University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business and University of California, Berkeley - Business & Public Policy Group
Downloads
2,907
33.
Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibility - A New Perspective
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 13 Apr 2007
Working Paper Series
University of Delhi - School of Economics - Commerce Department
Downloads
2,855
34.
Leviathan in Business: Varieties of State Capitalism and Their Implications for Economic Performance
Number of pages: 63
Posted: 31 May 2012
Last Revised: 30 Jun 2012
Working Paper Series
Brandeis University- International Business School and Insper Institute of Education and Research
Downloads
2,819
35.
Virtual Worlds, Virtual Economies, Virtual Institutions
Virtual Worlds and New Realities Conference at Emory University, February 2008
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 12 Feb 2007
Last Revised: 03 Aug 2014
Working Paper Series
Harvard University and Emory University - Goizueta Business School
Downloads
2,755
36.
Corporate Finance in Europe: A Survey
ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 121/2006, Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 06-17
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 19 Apr 2006
Working Paper Series
University of Lugano - Faculty of Economics and University of Mannheim Business School
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2,681
37.
The Market for Corporate Law
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Vol. 162, pp. 134-172, 2006, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 377
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 28 Jun 2001
Last Revised: 17 Aug 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School, University of Virginia School of Law and Harvard Law School
There are 3 versions of this paper
The Market for Corporate Law
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Vol. 162, pp. 134-172, 2006, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 377
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 28 Jun 2001
Last Revised: 17 Aug 2009
Downloads
2,600
The Market for Corporate Law
NBER Working Paper No. w9156
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 23 Oct 2002
Last Revised: 28 Oct 2010
Downloads
49
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28
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2,600
38.
How Many Varieties of Capitalism? Comparing the Comparative Institutional Analyses of Capitalist Diversity
MPIfG Discussion Paper No. 06/2
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 20 Apr 2006
Working Paper Series
Freie Universität Berlin and Temple University
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2,548
39.
Accountability and Institutional Design: Some Thoughts on the Grammar of Governance
Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 116, PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY: DESIGNS, DILEMMAS AND EXPERIENCES, Michael Dowdle, ed., Cambridge University Press, Chapter 5, pp. 115-156, 2006
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 01 Nov 2006
Accepted Paper Series
Yale Law School
Downloads
2,506
40.
Shareholder Primacy in Corporate Law: Can it Survive? Should it Survive?
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 10 Nov 2009
Last Revised: 08 Jan 2010
Working Paper Series
University of Leeds - School of Law
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2,491
41.
CRM and Stakeholder Management
20th SKOCH Summit, Hyatt Regency, Mumbai, 16-17 July 2009
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 01 Feb 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Vivin Consultants
Downloads
2,468
42.
A Model of China's State Capitalism
Number of pages: 76
Posted: 20 May 2012
Last Revised: 15 Aug 2015
Working Paper Series
University of Arkansas - Department of Finance, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)
Downloads
2,398
43.
Taxation and Corporate Governance: An Economic Approach
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 03 May 2007
Working Paper Series
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and University of Chicago Law School
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2,339
44.
Conflict and Cooperation within an Organization: A Case Study of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
Number of pages: 176
Posted: 08 May 2008
Last Revised: 12 Apr 2012
Working Paper Series
Leiden University - Leiden University College
Downloads
2,329
45.
On the Evolutionary Origin of Prospect Theory Preferences
Journal of Politics, Vol. 70, No. 2, pp. 335-350, April 2008
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 20 Aug 2007
Last Revised: 19 Aug 2008
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) - Department of Political Science, UC San Diego Division of Social Sciences and State University of New York (SUNY) - Department of Political Science
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2,329
46.
Recasting the Sovereign Wealth Fund Debate: Trust, Legitimacy, and Governance
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 19 May 2008
Last Revised: 22 Jul 2009
Working Paper Series
Stanford University - Global Projects Center
Downloads
2,280
47.
Consumer Contracts: Behavioral Economics vs. Neoclassical Economics
NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 07-17, Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 92, 2007-2008
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 25 Apr 2007
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School and New York University School of Law
Downloads
2,262
48.
Shareholder Protection and Stock Market Development: An Empirical Test of the Legal Origins Hypothesis
University of Cambridge, CBR Working Paper, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 108/2008
Number of pages: 53
Posted: 20 Feb 2008
Last Revised: 17 Nov 2010
Working Paper Series
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR), University of Cambridge, European University Institute (EUI) and United Nations
Downloads
2,252
49.
The Perception of and Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4308
Number of pages: 53
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
University College London - Department of Economics
Downloads
2,244
50.
The Institutional Nature of Price Bubbles
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 01 Feb 2007
Last Revised: 28 Jan 2008
Working Paper Series
University of Texas at Dallas and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Business
Downloads
2,228
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