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1.

Value Maximization, Stakeholder Theory, and the Corporate Objective Function

Tuck Business School Working Paper No. 01-09; Harvard NOM Research Paper No. 01-01; Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 00-058
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 11 Apr 2000
Accepted Paper Series
Michael C. Jensen
Harvard Business School
Downloads 49,814
2.

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 40,826
3.

Some Simple Economics of the Blockchain

Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 2874598, MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 5191-16
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 27 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2019
Working Paper Series
Christian Catalini and Joshua S. Gans
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management

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Downloads 35,572
4.

Managerial Compensation and Capital Structure Under Asymmetric Information

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 02 Mar 2007
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Kostas Koufopoulos
University of Warwick - Finance Group

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Downloads 23,091
5.

Governance Matters VI: Governance Indicators for 1996-2006

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4280
Number of pages: 94 Posted: 11 Jul 2007
Working Paper Series
Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay and Massimo Mastruzzi
Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and World Bank Institute
Downloads 23,085
6.

Integrity: A Positive Model that Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics, and Legality -- Abridged (English Language Version)

Harvard Business School NOM Unit Working Paper No. 10-061, Barbados Group Working Paper No. 10-01, Simon School Working Paper No. 10-07
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 18 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2016
Working Paper Series
Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen and Steve Zaffron
Independent, Harvard Business School and Landmark Worldwide LLC

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Downloads 19,558
7.

The History of Corporate Governance

OXFORD HANDBOOK OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, Mike Wright, Donald Siegel, Kevin Keasey and Igor Filatotchev, eds., Oxford University Press, 2013, University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 54/2011, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 184/2012
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 22 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 20 May 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Brian R. Cheffins
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
Downloads 18,209
8.

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 14,006
9.

Corporate Social Responsibility - an Economic and Financial Framework

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 05 Jan 2005
Working Paper Series
Geoffrey M. Heal
Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics
Downloads 11,426
10.

Risk Management and Corporate Governance: The Case of Enron

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 05 Jan 2004
Accepted Paper Series
Robert Rosen
University of Miami - School of Law
Downloads 11,226
11.

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 11,002
12.

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 10,123
13.

Performance for Pay? The Relation Between CEO Incentive Compensation and Future Stock Price Performance

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 19 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2016
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Michael J. Cooper, Huseyin Gulen and P. Raghavendra Rau
University of Utah - David Eccles School of Business, Purdue University - Krannert School of Management and University of Cambridge
Downloads 9,502
14.

The Changing of the Boards: The Impact on Firm Valuation of Mandated Female Board Representation

Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2012, vol. 127(1): 137-197.
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 21 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 16 Jun 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Kenneth R. Ahern and Amy K. Dittmar
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - The Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Downloads 9,179
15.

Corporate Governance of Banks after the Financial Crisis - Theory, Evidence, Reforms

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 130/2009
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 17 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2010
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Peter O. Mülbert
University of Mainz - Center for German and International Law of Financial Services and Faculty
Downloads 8,869
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A Century of Corporate Takeovers: What Have We Learned and Where Do We Stand? (previous title: The History of M&A Activity Around the World: A Survey of Literature)

Journal of Banking and Finance, 2008, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 97/2005
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 06 Oct 2005 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Marina Martynova and Luc Renneboog
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Tilburg University - Department of Finance
Downloads 8,792
17.

The Role of Boards of Directors in Corporate Governance: A Conceptual Framework & Survey

Charles A. Dice Center Working Paper No. 2008-21, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 228/2009, Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2008-03-020
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 18 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 31 Oct 2018
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Renee B. Adams, Benjamin E. Hermalin and Michael S. Weisbach
University of Oxford, University of California, Berkeley and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance
Downloads 8,709
18.

Corporate Investment and Stock Market Listing: A Puzzle?

Review of Financial Studies 28, no. 2 (February 2015): 342-390
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 10 May 2010 Last Revised: 07 Feb 2015
Accepted Paper Series
John Asker, Joan Farre-Mensa and Alexander Ljungqvist
UCLA, University of Illinois at Chicago - Department of Finance and Stockholm School of Economics

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Downloads 7,974
19.

Where Do Alphas Come From?: A New Measure of the Value of Active Investment Management

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 26 Mar 2008
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Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

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Downloads 7,672
20.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as a Model of 'Extended' Corporate Governance: An Explanation Based on the Economic Theories of Social Contract, Reputation and Reciprocal Conformism

LIUC, Ethics, Law and Economics Paper No. 142
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 07 Mar 2004
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Lorenzo Sacconi
Department of public and sovra-national law, University of Milan
Downloads 7,334
21.

Worldwide Governance Indicators Project: Answering the Critics

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4149
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
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Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay and Massimo Mastruzzi
Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and World Bank Institute
Downloads 7,195
22.

Putting Integrity into Finance: A Purely Positive Approach

Harvard Business School NOM Unit Working Paper No. 12-074, Barbados Group Working Paper No. 12-01, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) – Finance Working Paper No. 417/2014
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 05 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 29 Nov 2015
Working Paper Series
Werner Erhard and Michael C. Jensen
Independent and Harvard Business School

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Downloads 7,153
23.

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
Alon Brav, Wei Jiang, Randall S. Thomas and Frank Partnoy
Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics, Vanderbilt University - Law School and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
Downloads 6,954
24.

Executive Equity Compensation and Incentives: A Survey

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 22 Jul 2001
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Wayne R. Guay, John E. Core and David F. Larcker
University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business

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Downloads 6,877
25.

Corporate Social Responsibility and Access to Finance

Strategic Management Journal, 35 (1): 1-23.
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 25 May 2011 Last Revised: 28 Nov 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Beiting Cheng, Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
Harvard University - Harvard Business School, London Business School - Department of Strategic & International Management and Harvard Business School
Downloads 6,649
26.

Does M&A Pay? (Chapter 3)

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 14 Aug 2003
Accepted Paper Series
Robert F. Bruner
University of Virginia - Darden School of Business
Downloads 6,554
27.

Behind the Scenes: The Corporate Governance Preferences of Institutional Investors

Journal of Finance 71, 2016, 2905-2932
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 15 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 03 Feb 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Joseph A. McCahery, Zacharias Sautner and Laura T. Starks
Tilburg University - School of Law; European Banking Center (EBC), Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance
Downloads 6,324
28.

The Law and Economics of Contracts

Handbook of Law and Economics, Forthcoming, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 296
Number of pages: 144 Posted: 12 Jun 2006
Accepted Paper Series
Benjamin E. Hermalin, Avery W. Katz and Richard Craswell
University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University - Law School and Stanford Law School
Downloads 6,309
29.

The Death of Big Law

Wisconsin Law Review, Vol. 2010, No. 3, 2010
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 04 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2010
Working Paper Series
Larry E. Ribstein
University of Illinois College of Law (deceased)
Downloads 6,049
30.

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
Lucian A. Bebchuk
Harvard Law School
Downloads 5,868
31.

Active Ownership

Review of Financial Studies (RFS), Volume 28, Issue 12, pp. 3225-3268, 2015., Fox School of Business Research Paper No. 16-009
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 01 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 19 Mar 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Elroy Dimson, Oğuzhan Karakaş and Xi Li
University of Cambridge - Judge Business School, Cambridge Judge Business School - Finance Subject Group and London School of Economics
Downloads 5,646
32.

Mergers & Acquisitions in Indian Banking Sector

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 25 Nov 2012
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Chirag Aggarwal, Rachit Sachdeva, Harjeet Singh and Neeraj Garg
University of Delhi, University of Delhi, University of Delhi and University of Delhi
Downloads 5,556
33.

The Rise of Independent Directors in the United States, 1950-2005: Of Shareholder Value and Stock Market Prices

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 74/2006, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 301, Stanford Law Review, Vol. 59, p. 1465, 2007
Number of pages: 111 Posted: 04 Sep 2006 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2008
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Jeffrey N. Gordon
Columbia Law School

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Downloads 5,496
34.

Video: The Three Foundations of A Great Life, Great Leadership, and A Great Organization

Barbados Group Working Paper No. 11-04, Harvard Business School NOM Unit Research Paper No. 11-122
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 10 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 18 May 2013
Working Paper Series
Werner Erhard and Michael C. Jensen
Independent and Harvard Business School
Downloads 5,439
35.

Corporate Governance and Bank Performance

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 31 Aug 2007
Working Paper Series
Kenneth Spong and Richard J. Sullivan
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Downloads 5,414
36.

The Stakeholder Concept: A Mistaken Doctrine

Foundation for Business Responsibilities, Issue Paper No. 4, November 1999
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 13 Mar 2001
Accepted Paper Series
Elaine Sternberg
University of Miami
Downloads 5,413
37.

Corporate Governance and Accounting Scandals

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 17 Jan 2003
Working Paper Series
Anup Agrawal and Sahiba Chadha
University of Alabama - Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration and University of Alabama - Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration

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Downloads 5,399
38.

Executive Equity Compensation and Incentives: A Survey

Economic Policy Review, Vol. 9, No. 1, April 2003
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 06 Sep 2005
Accepted Paper Series
John E. Core, Wayne R. Guay and David F. Larcker
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business

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Downloads 5,354
39.

Role of Institutional Investors in Corporate Governance

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 23 Apr 2009
Working Paper Series
Manya Srivardhan
affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 5,352
40.

The Failure of Private Equity

Southern California Law Review, Vol. 82, p. 481, 2009
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 23 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 25 May 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Steven Davidoff Solomon
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
Downloads 5,347
41.

Contract Theory and the Limits of Contract Law

Number of pages: 84 Posted: 25 Apr 2003
Accepted Paper Series
Alan Schwartz and Robert E. Scott
Yale Law School and Columbia University - Law School
Downloads 5,263
42.

Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Entrepreneurship

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 03 Dec 2005
Working Paper Series
David P. Baron
Stanford University - Graduate School of Business

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Downloads 5,194
43.

Corporate Governance, Accounting Outcomes, and Organizational Performance

Accounting Review, October 2007
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 30 Mar 2007
Accepted Paper Series
David F. Larcker, Scott A. Richardson and A. Irem Tuna
Stanford University - Graduate School of Business, AQR Capital Management, LLC and London Business School
Downloads 5,179
44.

The New Vote Buying: Empty Voting and Hidden (Morphable) Ownership

As published in Southern California Law Review, Vol. 79, pp. 811-908, 2006, University of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 53
Number of pages: 99 Posted: 05 Jun 2006 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2008
Accepted Paper Series
Henry T. C. Hu and Bernard S. Black
University of Texas at Austin - School of Law and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads 5,160
45.

Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives

Ross School of Business Paper No. 1328, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 511/2017
Number of pages: 97 Posted: 03 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 07 Dec 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Miguel Anton, Florian Ederer, Mireia Gine and Martin C. Schmalz
University of Navarra, IESE Business School, Yale School of Management, IESE Business School, University of Navarra and University of Oxford - Finance

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Downloads 5,140
46.

Comparative Company Law

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 77/2006, THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF COMPARATIVE LAW, Mathias Reimann & Reinhard Zimmermann, eds., p. 1161-1191, Oxford University Press, 2006
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 17 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 04 Jul 2011
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Klaus J. Hopt
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
Downloads 5,052
47.

Risk Management and Corporate Governance: The Importance of Independence and Financial Knowledge for the Board and the Audit Committee

HEC Montreal Working Paper No. 05-03
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 07 Jun 2005
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Georges Dionne and Thouraya Triki
HEC Montreal - Department of Finance and HEC Montreal

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Downloads 5,028
48.

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
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Stuart Gillan and John D. Martin
University of Georgia - Department of Finance and Baylor University - Department of Finance, Insurance & Real Estate
Downloads 4,975
49.

Opening Platforms: How, When and Why?

This paper has been published under the same title as Chapter 6 in Platforms, Markets & Innovation (ed. Gawer, 2009) pp 131-162, Harvard Business School Entrepreneurial Management Working Paper No. 09-030
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 07 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Thomas R. Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Harvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit, Dartmouth College and Boston University – Questrom School of Business
Downloads 4,813
50.

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
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Morgan Ricks
Vanderbilt University - Law School
Downloads 4,771