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1.

The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime

Quarterly Journal of Economics
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 12 Aug 1999
Accepted Paper Series
John J. Donohue and Steven D. Levitt
Stanford Law School and University of Chicago

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Downloads 24,772
2.

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

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Downloads 11,128
3.

Russian Privatization and Corporate Governance: What Went Wrong?

As published in Stanford Law Review, Vol. 52, pp. 1731-1808, 2000.
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 22 Sep 1999
Accepted Paper Series
Bernard S. Black, Reinier Kraakman and Anna Tarassova
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, Harvard Law School and University of Maryland - Center on Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS)
Downloads 7,301
4.

The Non-Correlation between Board Independence and Long-Term Firm Performance

Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 185
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 03 Oct 1998
Accepted Paper Series
Sanjai Bhagat and Bernard S. Black
University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Finance and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law

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Downloads 7,229
5.

The Uncertain Relationship between Board Composition and Firm Performance

As published in Business Lawyer, Vol. 54, pp. 921-963, 1999.
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 17 Oct 1997
Accepted Paper Series
Sanjai Bhagat and Bernard S. Black
University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Finance and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads 6,513
6.

The Legal and Institutional Preconditions for Strong Securities Markets

UCLA Law Review, vol. 48, pp. 781-855, 2001, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 179
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 06 Oct 1999 Last Revised: 27 Jan 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Bernard S. Black
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads 6,264
7.

The Impact of Right to Carry Laws and the NRC Report: The Latest Lessons for the Empirical Evaluation of Law and Policy

Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 461
Number of pages: 108 Posted: 31 May 2014 Last Revised: 05 Sep 2014
Working Paper Series
Abhay Aneja, John J. Donohue and Alexandria Zhang
Stanford University, Stanford Law School and Johns Hopkins University

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Downloads 6,070
8.

Taking Shareholder Protection Seriously? Corporate Governance in the United States and Germany

American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 53, Winter 2005, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 17/2003, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 30 Nov 2003
Accepted Paper Series
Theodor Baums and Kenneth E. Scott
J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main and Stanford Law School
Downloads 5,408
9.

Controlling Shareholders and Corporate Governance: Complicating the Comparative Taxonomy

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 49/2005, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 309, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 281
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 19 Aug 2005
Working Paper Series
Ronald J. Gilson
Stanford Law School
Downloads 5,177
10.

Does Venture Capital Require an Active Stock Market?

As published in Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, pp. 36-48, Winter 1999
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 23 Mar 2000
Accepted Paper Series
Ronald J. Gilson and Bernard S. Black
Stanford Law School and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads 4,987
11.

The End of End-to-End: Preserving the Architecture of the Internet in the Broadband Era

UC Berkeley Law & Econ Research Paper No. 2000-19 , UCLA Law Review, Vol. 48, p. 925, 2001, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 207, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 37
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 07 Nov 2000 Last Revised: 22 Dec 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Mark A. Lemley and Lawrence Lessig
Stanford Law School and Harvard Law School

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Downloads 4,132
12.

Controlling Controlling Shareholders

Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 228; Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 262
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 17 Jun 2003
Working Paper Series
Ronald J. Gilson and Jeffrey N. Gordon
Stanford Law School and Columbia Law School
Downloads 4,050
13.

Globalizing Corporate Governance: Convergence of Form or Function

Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 192; and Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 174
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 12 Jul 2000
Working Paper Series
Ronald J. Gilson
Stanford Law School
Downloads 4,002
14.

Outside Director Liability Across Countries

as published in Texas Law Review, Vol. 84, pp. 1385-1480, 2006, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 71/2006, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 266, Univ of Texas Law and Economics Research Paper No. 31
Number of pages: 97 Posted: 20 Jan 2005 Last Revised: 29 Jun 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Brian R. Cheffins and Bernard S. Black
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads 3,938
15.

Engineering a Venture Capital Market: Lessons from the American Experience

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 55, April 2003
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 04 Dec 2002
Accepted Paper Series
Ronald J. Gilson
Stanford Law School
Downloads 3,625
16.

Patent Holdup and Royalty Stacking

Texas Law Review, Vol. 85, 2007, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 324
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 10 Aug 2006
Accepted Paper Series
Mark A. Lemley and Carl Shapiro
Stanford Law School and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
Downloads 3,530
17.

Understanding Venture Capital Structure: A Tax Explanation for Convertible Preferred Stock

Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 199; Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 230
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 28 Feb 2002
Working Paper Series
Ronald J. Gilson and David M. Schizer
Stanford Law School and Columbia University - Law School
Downloads 3,500
18.

The Core Fiduciary Duties of Outside Directors

As published in Asia Business Law Review, pp. 3-16, July 2001
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 13 Jun 2001
Accepted Paper Series
Bernard S. Black
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads 3,443
19.

Sovereign Wealth Funds and Corporate Governance: A Minimalist Response to the New Merchantilism

Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 355, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 328, Rock Center for Corporate Governance Working No. 26
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 21 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 17 Feb 2009
Working Paper Series
Ronald J. Gilson and Curtis J. Milhaupt
Stanford Law School and Stanford Law School
Downloads 3,388
20.

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
A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell
Stanford Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 3,306
21.

The Mechanisms of Market Efficiency Twenty Years Later: The Hindsight Bias

Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 240; Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 270; Harvard Law and Economics Disc. Paper No. 446
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 07 Nov 2003
Working Paper Series
Ronald J. Gilson and Reinier Kraakman
Stanford Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 3,150
22.

A New Balance between IP and Antitrust

Southwestern Journal of Law and Trade in the Americas, Vol. 13, p. 237, 2007, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 340
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 12 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Mark A. Lemley
Stanford Law School
Downloads 3,075
23.

What Economists Have Taught Us About Venture Capital Contracting

BRIDGING THE ENTREPRENEURIAL FINANCING GAP: LINKING GOVERNANCE WITH REGULATORY POLICY, Michael Whincop, ed., Ashgate, 2001
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 15 Aug 2001
Accepted Paper Series
Michael Klausner and Kate Litvak
Stanford Law School and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads 2,897
24.

Rules for Growth: Promoting Innovation and Growth Through Legal Reform

Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 426, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 410, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 1757982
Number of pages: 513 Posted: 08 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2014
Working Paper Series
Robert E. Litan, Yochai Benkler, Henry N. Butler, John Henry Clippinger, Bob Cook-Deegan, Robert D. Cooter, Aaron S. Edlin, Nicole Stelle Garnett, Ronald J. Gilson, Oliver R. Goodenough, Gillian K. Hadfield, Mark A. Lemley, Frank Partnoy, George L. Priest, Larry E. Ribstein, Charles Sabel, Peter H. Schuck, Hal S. Scott, Robert E. Scott, Alex Stein, Victoria Stodden, John E. Tyler, Alan D. Viard and Benjamin Wittes
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) - Council on Foreign Relations- Washington D.C., Harvard University, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Human Dynamics Group, Arizona State University (ASU), University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, Notre Dame Law School, Stanford Law School, Vermont Law School, USC Law School and Department of Economics, Stanford Law School, University of San Diego School of Law, Yale University - Law School, University of Illinois College of Law (deceased), Columbia University - Columbia Law School, Yale University - Law School, Harvard Law School, Columbia University - Law School, Brooklyn Law School, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, American Enterprise Institute and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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25.

Outside Director Liability

as published in Stanford Law Review, Vol. 58, pp. 1055-1159, 2006, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 68/2006, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 319, U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 76
Number of pages: 107 Posted: 04 Apr 2006 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Bernard S. Black, Brian R. Cheffins and Michael Klausner
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law and Stanford Law School
Downloads 2,609
26.

Conceptualizing the 'Fat Tax': The Role of Food Taxes in Developed Economies

Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 286
Number of pages: 107 Posted: 05 Jul 2004
Working Paper Series
Jeff Strnad
Stanford Law School
Downloads 2,588
27.

Economic Evidence in Antitrust: Defining Markets and Measuring Market Power

Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 328
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 20 Sep 2006
Working Paper Series
Jonathan B. Baker and Timothy Bresnahan
American University - Washington College of Law and Stanford University - Department of Economics
Downloads 2,455
28.

Does Corporate Governance Matter? A Crude Test Using Russian Data

As published in University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 149, pp. 2131-2150, 2001
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 26 Jan 2001
Accepted Paper Series
Bernard S. Black
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads 2,430
29.

Stock Price Response to News of Securities Fraud Litigation: Market Efficiency and the Slow Diffusion of Costly Information

Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 208
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 06 Dec 2000
Working Paper Series
Paul A. Griffin, Joseph Grundfest and Michael Perino
University of California, Davis - Graduate School of Management, Stanford University Law School and St. John's University - School of Law
Downloads 2,428
30.

The Corporate Governance Behavior and Market Value of Russian Firms

Emerging Markets Review, Vol. 2, pp. 89-108, 2001
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 23 Mar 2001
Accepted Paper Series
Bernard S. Black
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads 2,424
31.

Public vs. Private Enforcement of Antitrust Law: A Survey

Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 335
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 17 Dec 2006
Working Paper Series
Ilya R. Segal and Michael D. Whinston
Stanford University and Sloan School of Management and Department of Economics
Downloads 2,352
32.

The Legal Infrastructure of High Technology Industrial Districts: Silicon Valley, Route 128, and Covenants Not to Compete

Stanford Law School, John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics, Working Paper No. 163
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 24 Sep 1998
Working Paper Series
Ronald J. Gilson
Stanford Law School
Downloads 2,339
33.

Outside Director Liability (Before Enron and Worldcom)

Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 250
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 12 Dec 2003
Working Paper Series
Bernard S. Black, Brian R. Cheffins and Michael Klausner
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law and Stanford Law School
Downloads 2,330
34.

General Principles of Company Law for Transition Economies (English Version)

Stanford Law School, Olin Law and Economics Working Paper No. 165; and Columbia Law School, Law and Economic Studies Working Paper No. 138
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 02 Sep 1998
Accepted Paper Series
Gainan Avilov, Bernard S. Black, Dominique Carreau, Oksana Kozyr, Stilpon Nestor and Sarah Reynolds
Government of the Russian Federation - Institute for Legislation and Comparative Law, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, University of Paris, Research Center for Private Law, Russian Federation, Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) - Corporate Affairs Division and SJ Reynolds Associates
Downloads 2,200
35.

Do Patent Licensing Demands Mean Innovation?

Iowa Law Review, Vol. 101, 2015, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 473, Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 2565292, UC Hastings Research Paper No. 135
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 16 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 13 Nov 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Robin Feldman and Mark A. Lemley
University of California Hastings College of the Law and Stanford Law School
Downloads 2,104
36.

Patent Quality and Settlement among Repeat Patent Litigants

Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 398
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 20 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2012
Working Paper Series
John R. Allison, Joshua H. Walker and Mark A. Lemley
University of Texas - McCombs School of Business, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and Stanford Law School
Downloads 2,043
37.

Rating the Ratings: How Good are Commercial Governance Ratings?

Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 360, Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 1, Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Vol. 98, No. 3, 2010
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 27 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2017
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Robert Daines, Ian D. Gow and David F. Larcker
Stanford Law School, The University of Melbourne and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
Downloads 2,019
38.

A Theory of Partnerships

Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 244
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 27 May 2002
Working Paper Series
Jonathan Levin and Steven Tadelis
Stanford University - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
Downloads 2,004
39.

The First International Merger Wave (and the Fifth and Last U.S. Wave)

As published in University of Miami Law Review, Vol. 54, pp. 799-818, 2000
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 12 Jun 2000
Accepted Paper Series
Bernard S. Black
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads 1,942
40.

Corporate Governance in Korea at the Millennium: Enhancing International Competitiveness (Final Report and Legal Reform Recommendations to the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Korea)

As published in Journal of Corporation Law, Vol. 26, pp. 537-608, 2001
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 16 Jun 2000
Accepted Paper Series
Barry Metzger, Bernard S. Black, Timothy O'Brien and Young Moo Shin
Coudert Brothers LLP - New York, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, Coudert Brothers LLP - Hong Kong Law Offices and Shin & Kim

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Downloads 1,911
41.

Predicting Firms' Corporate Governance Choices: Evidence from Korea

Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol. 12, pp. 660-691, 2006, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 87/2005, KDI School of Pub Policy & Management Paper No. 04-16, McCombs Working Paper No. FIN-03-05, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 269, U of Texas law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 39
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 14 Nov 2005
Accepted Paper Series
Woochan Kim, Bernard S. Black and Hasung Jang
Korea University Business School, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and Korea University - Department of Finance
Downloads 1,854
42.

The Core Institutions that Support Strong Securities Markets

As published in Business Lawyer, Vol. 55, pp. 1565-1607, 2000
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 16 Jun 2000
Accepted Paper Series
Bernard S. Black
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads 1,812
43.

Legal Determinants of the Return on Equity

Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 193; and University of Salerno Working Paper No. 24
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 29 Feb 2000
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Davide Lombardo and Marco Pagano
European University Institute and University of Naples Federico II - Department of Economics and Statistics
Downloads 1,793
44.

The Price of Law: How the Market for Lawyers Distorts the Justice System

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 98, No. 4, 2000
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 09 Nov 1999
Accepted Paper Series
Gillian K. Hadfield
USC Law School and Department of Economics

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Downloads 1,759
45.

Deconstructing Equity: Public Ownership, Agency Costs, and Complete Capital Markets

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 108, p. 231, 2008, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 86/2007, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 346, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 302, Boston Univ. School of Law Working Paper No. 07-25, Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 8
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 06 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Ronald J. Gilson and Charles K. Whitehead
Stanford Law School and Cornell Law School
Downloads 1,707
46.

Regulatory Dualism as a Development Strategy: Corporate Reform in Brazil, the U.S., and the EU

Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 390, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 368, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 399, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 149/2010, Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 80
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 26 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 04 Jan 2015
Working Paper Series
Ronald J. Gilson, Henry Hansmann and Mariana Pargendler
Stanford Law School, Yale University - Law School and Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School at São Paulo
Downloads 1,700
47.

Missing the Forest for the Trolls

Columbia Law Review, Forthcoming, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 443
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 25 May 2013 Last Revised: 28 May 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Mark A. Lemley and A. Douglas Melamed
Stanford Law School and Stanford Law School
Downloads 1,664
48.

How to Make a Patent Market

Hofstra Law Review, Vol. 36, p. 257, 2008, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 347
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 11 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Mark A. Lemley and Nathan Myhrvold
Stanford Law School and Intellectual Ventures
Downloads 1,635
49.

Corporate Governance and East Asia

Stanford Law School, John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics Working Paper No. 176
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 26 Aug 1999
Working Paper Series
Kenneth E. Scott
Stanford Law School
Downloads 1,618
50.

The Economics of the Microsoft Case

Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 232
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 21 Mar 2002
Working Paper Series
Timothy Bresnahan
Stanford University - Department of Economics
Downloads 1,609