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
Results for Development, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and World Bank Institute
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89,120
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
Downloads
24,405
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 Emory University Goizueta Business School
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
13,883
The Long-Term Effects of Hedge Fund Activism
NBER Working Paper No. w21227
Number of pages: 85
Posted: 08 Jun 2015
Last Revised: 24 Jul 2022
Downloads
190
Downloads
13,883
4.
Corporate Social Responsibility - an Economic and Financial Framework
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 05 Jan 2005
Working Paper Series
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
Downloads
11,715
5.
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: 16
Posted: 18 Nov 2009
Last Revised: 22 Nov 2021
Accepted Paper Series
IBS Hyderabad (AACSB Accredited), ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education (IFHE) University, Hyderabad
Downloads
10,310
6.
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
Downloads
8,933
7.
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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8,143
8.
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)
Downloads
7,972
9.
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, Emory University Goizueta Business School, Vanderbilt University - Law SchoolVanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
Downloads
7,240
10.
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
Downloads
6,350
11.
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
Downloads
6,236
12.
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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6,074
13.
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
6,035
14.
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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5,877
15.
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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5,664
16.
Disrupting Governance: The New Institutional Economics of Distributed Ledger Technology
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 22 Jul 2016
Working Paper Series
RMIT University, Université Paris II - Panthéon-Assas and RMIT University
Downloads
5,092
17.
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
Downloads
4,947
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
7
Downloads
4,947
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
Columbia University
Downloads
4,930
19.
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 Chennai
Downloads
4,669
20.
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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4,610
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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4,610
21.
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, Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of ClevelandUniversity of Akron, University of Southern California and Duke University - Pratt School of Engineering
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4,507
22.
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)
Downloads
4,305
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
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4,214
24.
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
Downloads
4,005
25.
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
3,897
26.
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
Downloads
3,792
The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins
NBER Working Paper No. w13608
Number of pages: 93
Posted: 27 Nov 2007
Last Revised: 09 Mar 2022
Downloads
179
Downloads
3,792
27.
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
Downloads
3,767
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
3,711
29.
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
Downloads
3,582
30.
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
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3,581
31.
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
Downloads
3,546
32.
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
Downloads
3,529
33.
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 Ivey Business School, Western University
Downloads
3,523
34.
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; Coller School of Management
Downloads
3,496
35.
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
3,324
36.
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, University of Hong Kong (HKU) - Finance Area, Faculty of Business and Economics and Peking University- Institute of New Structural Economics
Downloads
3,036
37.
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
3,029
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
Downloads
2,995
39.
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
Downloads
2,956
40.
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
Institute for Defense Analyses and Emory University - Goizueta Business School
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2,899
41.
Regulatory Chill and the Threat of Arbitration: A View from Political Science
EVOLUTION IN INVESTMENT TREATY LAW AND ARBITRATION, Chester Brown, Kate Miles, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2011
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 24 May 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Queen's University
Downloads
2,881
42.
Investigating Policy Processes: The Governance Analytical Framework (GAF)
RESEARCH FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: FOUNDATIONS, EXPERIENCES, AND PERSPECTIVES, pp. 403-424, U. Wiesmann, H. Hurni, ed., Geographica Bernensia, 2011
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 09 Mar 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)
Downloads
2,740
43.
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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2,737
44.
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
2,657
The Market for Corporate Law
NBER Working Paper No. w9156
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 23 Oct 2002
Last Revised: 10 Jul 2022
Downloads
72
Downloads
2,657
45.
Smart Contracts and the Digital Single Market Through the Lens of a 'Law + Technology' Approach
European Commission, 2021
Number of pages: 60
Posted: 25 Oct 2021
Accepted Paper Series
VU University Amsterdam
Downloads
2,633
46.
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
Downloads
2,621
47.
Copyrights and Creativity: Evidence from Italian Opera in the Napoleonic Age
Number of pages: 95
Posted: 06 Oct 2014
Last Revised: 17 Mar 2020
Accepted Paper Series
University of California - Los Angeles and NYU Stern Department of Economics
Downloads
2,618
48.
Efficiently Inefficient Markets for Assets and Asset Management
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 12 Aug 2015
Last Revised: 09 Jun 2017
Working Paper Series
University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business and AQR Capital Management, LLC
There are 3 versions of this paper
Efficiently Inefficient Markets for Assets and Asset Management
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 12 Aug 2015
Last Revised: 09 Jun 2017
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2,532
Efficiently Inefficient Markets for Assets and Asset Management
NBER Working Paper No. w21563
Number of pages: 55
Posted: 21 Sep 2015
Last Revised: 03 Jun 2022
Downloads
89
Efficiently Inefficient Markets for Assets and Asset Management
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP12664
Number of pages: 65
Posted: 05 Feb 2018
Downloads
2,532
49.
What Have We Learned about the Resource Curse?
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 20 Oct 2013
Last Revised: 14 Aug 2014
Working Paper Series
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Political Science
There are 2 versions of this paper
What Have We Learned about the Resource Curse?
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 20 Oct 2013
Last Revised: 14 Aug 2014
Downloads
2,514
What Have We Learned About the Resource Curse?
Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 18, pp. 239-259, 2015
Posted: 12 May 2015
Downloads
2,514
50.
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
2,496
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