1.
Underwater and Not Walking Away: Shame, Fear and the Social Management of the Housing Crisis
Wake Forest Law Review, Vol. 45, p. 971, 2010, Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No 09-35
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 27 Oct 2009
Last Revised: 09 May 2015
Working Paper Series
University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law
Downloads
19,707
2.
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, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 134/2009
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 21 Jul 2009
Last Revised: 10 Dec 2018
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
11,919
3.
Competition and Crisis in Mortgage Securitization
Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 88, p.213, (2013)
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 10 Sep 2011
Last Revised: 22 Sep 2013
Accepted Paper Series
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
There are 2 versions of this paper
Competition and Crisis in Mortgage Securitization
Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 88, p.213, (2013)
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 10 Sep 2011
Last Revised: 22 Sep 2013
Downloads
10,268
Competition and Crisis in Mortgage Securitization
Canadian Law & Economics Association Conference, September 2011
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 02 Oct 2011
Last Revised: 11 Jan 2012
Downloads
811
Downloads
10,268
4.
The Promise and Perils of Credit Derivatives
University of Cincinnati Law Review, Vol. 75, p. 1019, 2007, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 06-22, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 06-36, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 07-74
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 13 Sep 2006
Last Revised: 20 Mar 2010
Accepted Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania Law School and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
Downloads
10,023
5.
How to Restructure Greek Debt
Number of pages: 14
Posted: 09 May 2010
Working Paper Series
Center for Contract and Economic Organization and Duke University School of Law
Downloads
9,029
6.
Systemic Risk
Duke Law School Legal Studies Paper No. 163, Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 97, No. 1, 2008
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 19 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 26 Sep 2008
Accepted Paper Series
Duke University School of Law
Downloads
8,911
7.
Two Faces: Demystifying the Mortgage Electronic Registration System's Land Title Theory
William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 53, No. 1, 2011
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 01 Oct 2010
Last Revised: 05 Feb 2013
Accepted Paper Series
University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law
Downloads
8,111
8.
Secret Liens and the Financial Crisis of 2008
American Bankruptcy Law Journal, Vol. 83, p. 253, 2009
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 05 Jan 2009
Last Revised: 16 Oct 2009
Accepted Paper Series
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Downloads
6,949
9.
Agency Problems, Legal Strategies, and Enforcement
Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 21/2009, Yale Law, Economics & Public Policy Research Paper No. 388, Harvard Law and Economics Research Paper Series No. 644
, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 135/2009
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 21 Jul 2009
Last Revised: 10 Dec 2018
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
6,603
10.
Foreclosure, Subprime Mortgage Lending, and the Mortgage Electronic Registration System
University of Cincinnati Law Review, Vol. 78, No. 4, 2010
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 09 Sep 2009
Last Revised: 01 Feb 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law
Downloads
5,861
11.
The Subprime Panic
Yale ICF Working Paper No. 08-25
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 01 Oct 2008
Working Paper Series
Yale School of Management
There are 3 versions of this paper
Downloads
5,819
The Subprime Panic
NBER Working Paper No. w14398
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 10 Oct 2008
Last Revised: 14 Oct 2008
Downloads
335
The Subprime Panic
European Financial Management, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 10-46, January 2009
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 02 Jan 2009
Downloads
8
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5,819
12.
Enron and the Use and Abuse of Special Purpose Entities in Corporate Structures
University of Cincinnati Law Review, Vol. 70, p. 1309, 2006, Duke Law School Legal Studies Paper No. 28
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 12 May 2002
Accepted Paper Series
Duke University School of Law
Downloads
5,294
13.
Forecasting Bankruptcy More Accurately: A Simple Hazard Model
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 12 Aug 1999
Working Paper Series
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, The Stephen M. Ross School of Business
There are 2 versions of this paper
Forecasting Bankruptcy More Accurately: A Simple Hazard Model
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 12 Aug 1999
Downloads
5,091
Forecasting Bankruptcy More Accurately: A Simple Hazard Model
Journal of Business
Posted: 12 Aug 1999
Downloads
5,091
14.
Against Financial Literacy Education
Iowa Law Review, Vol. 94, 2008, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 08-10, Loyola-LA Legal Studies Paper No. 2008-13
Number of pages: 92
Posted: 13 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 09 Jul 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Loyola Law School Los Angeles
Downloads
4,919
15.
The Management of Corporate Capital Structure: Theory and Evidence
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 13 Jan 1997
Working Paper Series
Blackrock and University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance
Downloads
4,864
16.
Financial Engineering, Corporate Governance, and the Collapse of Enron
U of Delaware Coll. of Bus. and Econ. Ctr. for Corp. Governance Working Paper No. 2002-001
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 16 Jan 2003
Working Paper Series
University of Georgia - Department of Finance and Baylor University - Department of Finance, Insurance & Real Estate
Downloads
4,840
17.
The Failure of Good Intentions: The WorldCom Fraud and the Collapse of American Telecommunications After Deregulation
Yale Journal on Regulation, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 207-267, 2003
Number of pages: 61
Posted: 01 Oct 2002
Last Revised: 22 Dec 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Criterion Economics, L.L.C.
Downloads
4,835
18.
Greek Debt - The Endgame Scenarios
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 14 Apr 2011
Last Revised: 25 Dec 2014
Working Paper Series
Center for Contract and Economic Organization and Duke University School of Law
Downloads
4,723
19.
How to Restructure Venezuelan Debt (¿Cómo restructurar la deuda venezolana?)
Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2017-52
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 27 Jul 2017
Last Revised: 22 Aug 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Center for Contract and Economic Organization and Duke University School of Law
Downloads
4,653
20.
The Panic of 2007
Yale ICF Working Paper No. 08-24
Number of pages: 92
Posted: 26 Aug 2008
Working Paper Series
Yale School of Management
There are 2 versions of this paper
Downloads
4,627
The Panic of 2007
NBER Working Paper No. w14358
Number of pages: 93
Posted: 23 Sep 2008
Last Revised: 26 Sep 2010
Downloads
264
Downloads
4,627
21.
Shadow Banking and Financial Regulation
Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 370
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 24 Mar 2010
Last Revised: 26 Feb 2014
Working Paper Series
Vanderbilt University - Law School
Downloads
4,593
22.
The New Financial Deal: Understanding the Dodd-Frank Act and its (Unintended) Consequences
THE NEW FINANCIAL DEAL: UNDERSTANDING THE DODD-FRANK ACT AND ITS (UNINTENDED) CONSEQUENCES, Wiley, November 2010
, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 10-21
Number of pages: 14
Posted: 13 Oct 2010
Last Revised: 28 Oct 2010
Accepted Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Downloads
4,572
23.
The Essential Role of Organizational Law
NYU Law and Economics Working Paper No. 00-006; Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper 284; Yale ICF Working Paper No. 00-11
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 07 Jun 2000
Working Paper Series
Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Essential Role of Organizational Law
NYU Law and Economics Working Paper No. 00-006; Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper 284; Yale ICF Working Paper No. 00-11
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 07 Jun 2000
Downloads
4,567
The Essential Role of Organizational Law
Yale Law Journal, Vol. 110, December 2000
Posted: 17 Aug 2001
Downloads
4,567
24.
Bankruptcy and the Resolution of Financial Distress
Number of pages: 89
Posted: 24 Jan 2008
Working Paper Series
Boston College - Carroll School of Management, New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance, Norwegian School of Economics and Northeastern University, D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Finance Area
Downloads
4,539
25.
Keynote Address: Understanding the Subprime Financial Crisis
South Carolina Law Review, Vol. 60, No. 3, 2009
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 23 Oct 2008
Last Revised: 28 Dec 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Duke University School of Law
Downloads
4,421
26.
Graying of U.S. Bankruptcy: Fallout from Life in a Risk Society
Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 406
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 18 Aug 2018
Last Revised: 08 Nov 2018
Working Paper Series
University of Idaho, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, University of Illinois College of Law and University of California - Irvine School of Law
Downloads
4,393
27.
Bankruptcy or Bailouts?
Journal of Corporation Law, Vol. 35, p. 469, 2010, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 09-11, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 09-05
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 18 Mar 2009
Last Revised: 09 Jun 2010
Working Paper Series
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and University of Pennsylvania Law School
Downloads
4,269
28.
Accounting Conservatism and Bankruptcy Risk
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 06 Jun 2010
Last Revised: 25 Sep 2019
Working Paper Series
University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics, York University and The University of Hong Kong - School of Economics and Finance
Downloads
3,955
29.
Misbehavior and Mistake in Bankruptcy Mortgage Claims
U of Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-29, Texas Law Review, Vol. 87, 2008
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 07 Nov 2007
Last Revised: 14 Aug 2009
Accepted Paper Series
University of California - Irvine School of Law
Downloads
3,709
30.
A Transactional Genealogy of Scandal: From Michael Milken to Enron to Goldman Sachs
Southern California Law Review, Vol. 86, pp. 783-868 (2013), U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 12-26, Georgetown Law and Economics Research Paper No. 12-034, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 12-126
Number of pages: 86
Posted: 15 Aug 2012
Last Revised: 13 Dec 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania Law School and Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads
3,594
31.
The Future of Securitization
Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 41, No. 4, p.1313 2009
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 18 Nov 2008
Last Revised: 28 Dec 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Duke University School of Law
Downloads
3,375
32.
Regulating the Rating Agencies
Washington University Law Quarterly, Vol. 82, p. 43, 2004
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 04 Mar 2005
Accepted Paper Series
University of Minnesota Law School
Downloads
3,259
33.
Valuation of Bankrupt Firms
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 27 Jul 1998
Working Paper Series
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, Boston College - Carroll School of Management and Harvard Business School
There are 3 versions of this paper
Downloads
3,178
34.
An Empirical Assessment of Student Loan Discharges and the Undue Hardship Standard
86 American Bankruptcy Law Journal 495 (2012)
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 25 Jul 2011
Last Revised: 25 Sep 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Villanova University - School of Law
Downloads
3,169
35.
Securitization and Its Discontents: The Dynamics of Financial Product Development
Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 29, pp. 1553-1728, 2008
Number of pages: 176
Posted: 08 Sep 2007
Last Revised: 14 Jun 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Visiting Professor at Large
Downloads
3,133
36.
Law and the Rise of the Firm
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 57/2006, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 326
Number of pages: 69
Posted: 03 Jan 2006
Working Paper Series
Yale University - Law School, Harvard Law School and Fordham University School of Law
There are 3 versions of this paper
Law and the Rise of the Firm
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 57/2006, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 326
Number of pages: 69
Posted: 03 Jan 2006
Downloads
3,071
Law and the Rise of the Firm
Harvard Law Review, Vol. 119, No. 5, pp. 1333-1403, March 2006, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 546
Number of pages: 70
Posted: 31 Jul 2006
Downloads
921
Law and the Rise of the Firm
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership Historical Research Reference in Entrepreneurship
Posted: 09 Nov 2009
Downloads
3,071
37.
The Economics of Credit Cards
George Mason Law & Economics Working Paper No. 00-22
Number of pages: 127
Posted: 25 May 2000
Working Paper Series
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
Downloads
3,045
38.
Credit Default Swaps and the Credit Crisis
Charles A. Dice Center Working Paper No. 2009-16 , Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2009-03-16, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 264/2009
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 29 Sep 2009
Last Revised: 27 Sep 2010
Working Paper Series
Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance
There are 2 versions of this paper
Credit Default Swaps and the Credit Crisis
Charles A. Dice Center Working Paper No. 2009-16 , Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2009-03-16, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 264/2009
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 29 Sep 2009
Last Revised: 27 Sep 2010
Downloads
3,037
Credit Default Swaps and the Credit Crisis
NBER Working Paper No. w15384
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 28 Sep 2009
Last Revised: 16 Jul 2010
Downloads
82
Downloads
3,037
39.
Leveraged Buyout Bankruptcies, the Problem of Hindsight Bias, and the Credit Default Swap Solution
Columbia Business Law Review, Vol. 2011, No. 1, p. 118, 2011, Seton Hall Public Law Research Paper No. 1632084
Number of pages: 104
Posted: 17 Jul 2010
Last Revised: 25 Apr 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of Southern California Gould School of Law and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP - New York Office
Downloads
3,020
40.
Mortgage Servicing
Yale Journal on Regulation, Vol. 28, No. 1, 2011, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 11-09, Georgetown Law and Economics Research Paper No. 11-01
Number of pages: 90
Posted: 18 Dec 2010
Last Revised: 10 Sep 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Georgetown University Law Center and National Consumer Law Center
Downloads
2,952
41.
The Derivatives Market's Payment Priorities as Financial Crisis Accelerator
Stanford Law Review, Vol. 63, Issue3, p. 539, 2011, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 153/2010, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 10-17
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 09 Mar 2010
Last Revised: 21 Jul 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School
Downloads
2,808
42.
Debt, Equity, and Hybrid Decoupling: Governance and Systemic Risk Implications
U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 120, Europen Financial Management Journal, Vol. 14, 2008, ECGI - Finance Working Paper Series No. 207/2008, McCombs Research Paper Series
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 17 Jan 2008
Last Revised: 22 Jan 2019
Working Paper Series
University of Texas at Austin - School of Law and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
There are 2 versions of this paper
Debt, Equity, and Hybrid Decoupling: Governance and Systemic Risk Implications
U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 120, Europen Financial Management Journal, Vol. 14, 2008, ECGI - Finance Working Paper Series No. 207/2008, McCombs Research Paper Series
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 17 Jan 2008
Last Revised: 22 Jan 2019
Downloads
2,765
Debt, Equity and Hybrid Decoupling: Governance and Systemic Risk Implications
European Financial Management, Vol. 14, Issue 4, pp. 663-709, September 2008
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 14 Aug 2008
Downloads
5
Downloads
2,765
43.
Assessing the Chrysler Bankruptcy
Michigan Law Review, Vol. 108, pp. 727-772, 2010, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 645, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 09-22, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 09-17, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 09-42
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 30 Jun 2009
Last Revised: 13 Jan 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School and University of Pennsylvania Law School
Downloads
2,727
44.
Risk-Based Student Loans
Washington and Lee Law Review, Vol. 70, No. 1, p. 527, 2013
Number of pages: 122
Posted: 08 Dec 2011
Last Revised: 05 May 2013
Accepted Paper Series
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
There are 2 versions of this paper
Risk-Based Student Loans
Washington and Lee Law Review, Vol. 70, No. 1, p. 527, 2013
Number of pages: 122
Posted: 08 Dec 2011
Last Revised: 05 May 2013
Downloads
2,697
Risk Based Student Loans -- Powerpoint Presentation
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 01 Aug 2012
Last Revised: 15 Apr 2013
Downloads
497
Downloads
2,697
45.
The Rise of a Giant: Securitization and the Global Financial Crisis
American Business Law Journal, Vol. 49, No. 4, p. 859, 2012
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 05 Jan 2013
Accepted Paper Series
College of Law and Business - Ramat Gan Law School
Downloads
2,663
46.
Regulatory Reform in the Wake of the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 04 May 2009
Working Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads
2,656
47.
A Synthetic View of Different Concepts of Creditor Protection - or a High-Level Framework for Corporate Creditor Protection
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 60/2006
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 21 Feb 2006
Working Paper Series
University of Mainz - Center for German and International Law of Financial Services and Faculty
Downloads
2,653
48.
The Law & Economics of Subprime Lending
George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 08-17, University of Colorado Law Review, Vol. 80, No. 1, Winter 2009, pp. 1-86
Number of pages: 87
Posted: 16 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 05 Dec 2008
Accepted Paper Series
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty and Independent
Downloads
2,635
49.
Do Bankruptcy Codes Matter? A Study of Defaults in France, Germany and the UK
EFA 2005 Moscow Meetings Paper, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 89/2005, WFA 2005 Portland Meetings Paper, AFA 2005 Philadelphia Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 05 Jan 2005
Working Paper Series
University of Toronto - Finance Area and London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting
Downloads
2,524
50.
Going-Concern Opinions in Failing Companies: Auditor Dependence and Opinion Shopping
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 12 Oct 2000
Working Paper Series
University of Southern California
Downloads
2,447
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