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
Harvard Business School
Downloads
49,814
2.
Corporate Governance and Control
Number of pages: 128
Posted: 31 Oct 2002
Working Paper Series
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management
There are 2 versions of this paper
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
Downloads
35,572
Some Simple Economics of the Blockchain
NBER Working Paper No. w22952
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 19 Dec 2016
Downloads
304
Downloads
35,572
4.
Managerial Compensation and Capital Structure Under Asymmetric Information
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 02 Mar 2007
Working Paper Series
University of Warwick - Finance Group
There are 2 versions of this paper
Managerial Compensation and Capital Structure Under Asymmetric Information
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 02 Mar 2007
Downloads
23,091
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
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
Independent, Harvard Business School and Landmark Worldwide LLC
There are 4 versions of this paper
Integrity: A Positive Model that Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics and Legality
Harvard Business School NOM Working Paper No. 06-11, Barbados Group Working Paper No. 06-03, Simon School Working Paper No. FR 08-05
Number of pages: 124
Posted: 08 Sep 2006
Last Revised: 14 Apr 2016
Downloads
15,861
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
Downloads
19,558
Integridad: Un Modelo Positivo Que Incorpora Fenomenos Normativos de Moral, Etica y Legalidad - Abreviado (Integrity: A Positive Model that Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics, and Legality - Abridged)
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: 38
Posted: 07 Feb 2011
Last Revised: 01 May 2020
Downloads
986
A New Model of Integrity: The Missing Factor of Production (PDF file of Keynote and PowerPoint Slides)
Harvard Business School NOM Unit Working Paper 10-087, Barbados Group Working Paper No. 10-03
Number of pages: 152
Posted: 18 Apr 2010
Last Revised: 10 Sep 2013
Downloads
7,468
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Working Paper Series
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
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
Working Paper Series
University of Mainz - Center for German and International Law of Financial Services and Faculty
Downloads
8,869
16.
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
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
Working Paper Series
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
UCLA, University of Illinois at Chicago - Department of Finance and Stockholm School of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
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
Downloads
7,974
Does the Stock Market Harm Investment Incentives?
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP7857
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 19 Jul 2010
Downloads
13
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
Working Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
There are 3 versions of this paper
Where Do Alphas Come From?: A New Measure of the Value of Active Investment Management
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 26 Mar 2008
Downloads
7,672
Where Do Alphas Come From?: A New Measure of the Value of Active Investment Management
Posted: 06 May 2008
Where Do Alphas Come from?: A New Measure of the Value of Active Investment Management
Journal Of Investment Management (JOIM), Third Quarter 2008
Posted: 07 Oct 2008
Last Revised: 09 Jul 2010
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
Working Paper Series
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
Working Paper Series
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
Independent and Harvard Business School
There are 3 versions of this paper
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
Downloads
7,153
Putting Integrity Into Finance: A Purely Positive Approach
Capitalism and Society, Vol. 12 [2017], Iss. 1, Art. 1
Number of pages: 91
Posted: 04 May 2017
Downloads
5,727
Putting Integrity into Finance: A Purely Positive Approach
NBER Working Paper No. w19986
Number of pages: 65
Posted: 24 Mar 2014
Downloads
147
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
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
Working Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
There are 2 versions of this paper
Executive Equity Compensation and Incentives: A Survey
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 22 Jul 2001
Downloads
6,877
Executive Equity Compensation and Incentives: A Survey
Economic Policy Review, Vol. 9, No. 1, April 2003
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 06 Sep 2005
Downloads
5,354
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Working Paper Series
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
Working Paper Series
Columbia Law School
There are 2 versions of this paper
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
Downloads
5,496
The Rise of Independent Directors in the United States, 1950-2005: Of Shareholder Value and Stock Market Prices
Stanford Law Review, Vol. 59, p. 1465, 2007, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 323
Number of pages: 107
Posted: 23 Jan 2008
Downloads
497
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
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
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
University of Miami
Downloads
5,413
37.
Corporate Governance and Accounting Scandals
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 17 Jan 2003
Working Paper Series
University of Alabama - Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration and University of Alabama - Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration
There are 2 versions of this paper
Corporate Governance and Accounting Scandals
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 17 Jan 2003
Downloads
5,399
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
There are 2 versions of this paper
Executive Equity Compensation and Incentives: A Survey
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 22 Jul 2001
Downloads
6,877
Executive Equity Compensation and Incentives: A Survey
Economic Policy Review, Vol. 9, No. 1, April 2003
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 06 Sep 2005
Downloads
5,354
Downloads
5,354
39.
Role of Institutional Investors in Corporate Governance
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 23 Apr 2009
Working Paper Series
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
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
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
Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
There are 2 versions of this paper
Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Entrepreneurship
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 03 Dec 2005
Downloads
5,194
Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Entrepreneurship
Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 683-717, Fall 2007
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 26 Jul 2007
Downloads
23
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
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
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
University of Navarra, IESE Business School, Yale School of Management, IESE Business School, University of Navarra and University of Oxford - Finance
There are 3 versions of this paper
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
Downloads
5,140
Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives
CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6178
Number of pages: 86
Posted: 14 Oct 2020
Downloads
218
Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP12674
Number of pages: 56
Posted: 05 Feb 2018
Last Revised: 11 Jun 2018
Downloads
3
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
Working Paper Series
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
Working Paper Series
HEC Montreal - Department of Finance and HEC Montreal
There are 2 versions of this paper
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
Downloads
5,028
Risk Management and Corporate Governance: The Importance of Independence and Financial Knowledge for the Board and the Audit Committee
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 14 Jan 2012
Downloads
1,272
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
Working Paper Series
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
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
Working Paper Series
Vanderbilt University - Law School
Downloads
4,771
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