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1.

Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure

Michael C. Jensen, A THEORY OF THE FIRM: GOVERNANCE, RESIDUAL CLAIMS AND ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS, Harvard University Press, December 2000, Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Vol. 3, No. 4, 1976
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 19 Jul 1998 Last Revised: 18 May 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling
Harvard Business School and Simon School, University of Rochester (Deceased)
Downloads 134,965
2.

A Stakeholder Approach to Strategic Management

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 16 Mar 2001
Working Paper Series
R. Edward Freeman and John McVea
University of Virginia - Darden School of Business and University of Virginia - Darden School of Business
Downloads 57,384
3.

Agency Cost of Free Cash Flow, Corporate Finance, and Takeovers

American Economic Review, Vol. 76, No. 2, May 1986
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 25 Mar 1999
Accepted Paper Series
Michael C. Jensen
Harvard Business School
Downloads 46,265
4.

Corporate Governance and Control

Number of pages: 128 Posted: 31 Oct 2002
Working Paper Series
Marco Becht, Patrick Bolton and Ailsa Röell
Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (ULB), Columbia Business School - Department of Economics and Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs
Downloads 40,701
5.

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
Accepted Paper Series
Eugene F. Fama and Michael C. Jensen
University of Chicago - Finance and Harvard Business School
Downloads 37,339
6.

Value Based Management: Economic Value Added or Cash Value Added?

FWC AB Study No. 1997:3
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 05 Apr 1999
Working Paper Series
Fredrik Weissenrieder
Weissenrieder & Co AB
Downloads 34,601
7.

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 34,264
8.

Corporate Governance and Firm Performance

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 27 Sep 2004
Working Paper Series
Lawrence D. Brown and Marcus L. Caylor
Temple University - Department of Accounting and Kennesaw State University
Downloads 30,811
9.

Corporate Governance and Equity Prices

Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 118, No. 1, pp. 107-155, February 2003
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 12 Sep 2001
Working Paper Series
Paul A. Gompers, Joy L. Ishii and Andrew Metrick
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Yale School of Management

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Downloads 28,343
10.

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
Harvard Business School, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Ohio State University (OSU) - Fisher College of Business
Downloads 26,802
11.

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 23,410
12.

A Checklist for Reviewing a Paper

Duke I&E Research Paper No. 2017-03, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 17-6
Number of pages: 2 Posted: 21 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 10 Sep 2020
Working Paper Series
Jonathan Berk, Campbell R. Harvey and David A. Hirshleifer
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and University of California, Irvine - Paul Merage School of Business
Downloads 23,115
13.

Executive Compensation

Number of pages: 91 Posted: 19 May 1999
Working Paper Series
Kevin J. Murphy
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
Downloads 20,173
14.

International Corporate Governance

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 30 Jul 2002
Working Paper Series
Diane K. Denis and John J. McConnell
University of Pittsburgh - Katz School of Business and Purdue University
Downloads 18,933
15.

Eclipse of the Public Corporation

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW (Sept.-Oct. 1989), revised 1997.
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 03 May 1999
Working Paper Series
Michael C. Jensen
Harvard Business School
Downloads 17,123
16.

Corporate Governance and Earnings Management

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 29 Jun 2001
Working Paper Series
Sonda Marrakchi Chtourou, Jean Bédard and Lucie Courteau
University of Sfax, Université Laval - École de comptabilité and Free University of Bozen-Bolzano - Faculty of Economics and Management
Downloads 16,910
17.

Financial Accounting Information and Corporate Governance

Number of pages: 115 Posted: 28 Apr 2002
Working Paper Series
Robert M. Bushman and Abbie J. Smith
University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

Multiple version iconThere are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 16,496
18.

Performance of Private Equity Funds

EFA 2005 Moscow Meetings
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 07 Aug 2005 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2008
Working Paper Series
Ludovic Phalippou and Oliver Gottschalg
University of Oxford - Said Business School and HEC Paris - Strategy & Business Policy
Downloads 16,214
19.

CEO Incentives: It's Not How Much You Pay, But How

Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998; Harvard Business Review, No. 3, May-June 1990
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 12 Apr 1999
Accepted Paper Series
Michael C. Jensen and Kevin J. Murphy
Harvard Business School and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business

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Downloads 15,813
20.

Evidence on Eva

Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 12, No. 2, Summer 1999
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 20 Sep 1999
Accepted Paper Series
Gary C. Biddle, Robert M. Bowen and James S. Wallace
University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics, Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics and Claremont Colleges - Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management
Downloads 15,788
21.

Investor Protection and Corporate Governance

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 27 Jul 2000
Working Paper Series
Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez de Silanes, Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny
Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business, SKEMA Business School, Harvard University - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

Multiple version iconThere are 4 versions of this paper

Downloads 15,603
22.

A Review of IPO Activity, Pricing and Allocations

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 09 Jan 2002
Working Paper Series
Ivo Welch and Jay R. Ritter
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and University of Florida - Department of Finance, Insurance and Real Estate

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Downloads 15,438
23.

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 14,997
24.

Theory of Capital Structure - a Review

FRIHET OG MANGFOLD, FESTSSKRIFT TIL ODD, G. Arntzen. L. Fallan & O. Gustafsson, eds., Trondheim: Tapir/TØH, Tapir Academic Press, NO-7005 Trondheim, Norway
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 17 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 28 Jan 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Stein Frydenberg
NTNU Business School - Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Downloads 14,575
25.

The Market for Corporate Control: The Scientific Evidence

Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 11, pp. 5-50, 1983
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 31 Aug 2002
Accepted Paper Series
Richard S. Ruback and Michael C. Jensen
Harvard Business School and Harvard Business School
Downloads 14,220
26.

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 14,161
27.

The Modern Industrial Revolution, Exit, and the Failure of Internal Control Systems

Michael C. Jensen, A THEORY OF THE FIRM: GOVERNANCE, RESIDUAL CLAIMS AND ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS, Harvard University Press, December 2000; Journal of Finance, July 1993
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 09 May 1999 Last Revised: 14 Sep 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Michael C. Jensen
Harvard Business School

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Downloads 13,927
28.

A New Model of Integrity: An Actionable Pathway to Trust, Productivity and Value (PDF File of Keynote Slides)

Barbados Group Working Paper No. 07-01, Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 07-01, 1st IESE Conference on "Humanizing the Firm and the Management Profession" Presentation
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 20 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 11 Dec 2012
Working Paper Series
Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen and Steve Zaffron
Independent, Harvard Business School and Landmark Worldwide LLC
Downloads 13,894
29.

The Fall of Enron

Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 03-38
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 17 Oct 2003
Accepted Paper Series
Krishna Palepu and Paul M. Healy
Harvard University - Harvard Business School and Harvard Business School
Downloads 13,824
30.

Anticompetitive Effects of Common Ownership

Journal of Finance, 73(4), 2018
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 22 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 13 May 2018
Accepted Paper Series
José Azar, Martin C. Schmalz and Isabel Tecu
University of Navarra, IESE Business School, University of Oxford - Finance and Charles River Associates (CRA)
Downloads 13,759
31.

Predicting Material Accounting Misstatements

Contemporary Accounting Research, Forthcoming, AAA 2008 Financial Accounting and Reporting Section (FARS) Paper
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 30 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 24 May 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Patricia Dechow, Weili Ge, Chad R. Larson and Richard G. Sloan
USC Marshall School of Business, University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Houston - Department of Accountancy & Taxation and University of Southern California - Leventhal School of Accounting
Downloads 13,633
32.

Stockholder, Manager, and Creditor Interests: Applications of Agency Theory

Theory of the Firm (Book), Vol. 1, No. 1, 2000
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 11 Oct 2000 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Michael C. Jensen and Clifford W. Smith
Harvard Business School and Simon Graduate School of Business, University of Rochester
Downloads 13,517
33.

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

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Downloads 13,111
34.

New Evidence and Perspectives on Mergers

Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 01-070, HBS Finance Working Paper No. 01-070
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 23 May 2001
Working Paper Series
Gregor Andrade, Mark L. Mitchell and Erik Stafford
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Harvard Business School - Finance Unit
Downloads 12,947
35.

It Governance on One Page

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 09 Feb 2005
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Peter Weill and Jeanne W. Ross
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Information Systems Research (CISR)
Downloads 12,265
36.

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 12,230
37.

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 11,901
38.

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, European Corporate Governance Institute (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: 72 Posted: 20 Jan 2005 Last Revised: 20 Nov 2018
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

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Downloads 11,727
39.

Just Say No to Wall Street: Putting a Stop to the Earnings Game

Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 41-46, Winter 2002
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 17 Jan 2002 Last Revised: 18 May 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Joseph Fuller and Michael C. Jensen
The Monitor Company and Harvard Business School

Multiple version iconThere are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 11,596
40.

Preparing a Referee Report: Guidelines and Perspectives

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 11 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2016
Working Paper Series
Jonathan Berk, Campbell R. Harvey and David A. Hirshleifer
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and University of California, Irvine - Paul Merage School of Business
Downloads 11,305
41.

Market Risk Premium and Risk Free Rate Used for 51 Countries in 2013: A Survey with 6,237 Answers

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 15 Jul 2006 Last Revised: 27 Jun 2013
Working Paper Series
Pablo Fernandez, Javier Aguirreamalloa and Pablo Linares
IESE Business School, IESE Business School and University of Navarra, IESE Business School
Downloads 11,171
42.

The Laws of the Virtual Worlds

California Law Review, Vol. 92, No. 1, 2004
Number of pages: 100 Posted: 29 May 2003
Accepted Paper Series
Greg Lastowka and Dan Hunter
Rutgers School of Law and Faculty of Law, QUT
Downloads 10,962
43.

Compensation and Incentives: Practice vs. Theory

Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998; Journal of Finance, Vol. 63, No. 3, pp. 593-616, July 1998
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 24 Sep 1998
Accepted Paper Series
George P. Baker, Michael C. Jensen and Kevin J. Murphy
HBS Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
Downloads 10,876
44.

Earnings Management and Corporate Governance: The Roles of the Board and the Audit Committee

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 22 Mar 2002
Working Paper Series
Biao Xie, Wallace N. Davidson and Peter J. DaDalt
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale - Department of Finance, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale - Department of Finance and Susquehanna University

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Downloads 10,768
45.

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 10,253
46.

Transparency, Financial Accounting Information, and Corporate Governance

Economic Policy Review, Vol. 9, No. 1, April 2003
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 07 Sep 2005
Accepted Paper Series
Robert M. Bushman and Abbie J. Smith
University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 10,181
47.

Corporate Governance in Banking: A Conceptual Framework

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 11 Dec 2000
Working Paper Series
Penny Ciancanelli and José Antonio Reyes-Gonzalez
University of Strathclyde - Department of Accounting and Finance and University of Strathclyde - Department of Accounting and Finance
Downloads 10,171
48.

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 10,087
49.

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 10,045
50.

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, Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 10,004