1.
Board Models in Europe - Recent Developments of Internal Corporate Governance Structures in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 18/2004, European Company and Financial Law Review, pp. 135-168, 2004, Company & Securities Law Review, Vol. 1, pp. 217-245, 2005, VOC 1602-2004: 400 YEARS OF COMPANY LAW, Ella Gepken-Jager, Gerard van Solinge, Levinus Timmerman, eds., Deventer (Kluwer), 2005
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 20 Jan 2004
Accepted Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics
Downloads
18,914
2.
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
15,110
3.
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, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 134/2009
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 21 Jul 2009
Last Revised: 18 Nov 2009
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
10,865
4.
Hedge Funds in Corporate Governance and Corporate Control
University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 155, p. 1021, 2007, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 06-16, NYU, Law and Economics Research Paper No. 06-37, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 76/2006
Number of pages: 73
Posted: 25 Jul 2006
Last Revised: 21 May 2009
Accepted Paper Series
New York University School of Law and New York University School of Law
There are 2 versions of this paper
Hedge Funds in Corporate Governance and Corporate Control
University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 155, p. 1021, 2007, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 06-16, NYU, Law and Economics Research Paper No. 06-37, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 76/2006
Number of pages: 73
Posted: 25 Jul 2006
Last Revised: 21 May 2009
Downloads
8,384
Hedge Funds in Corporate Governance and Corporate Control.
NYU Working Paper No. CLB-06-012
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 31 Oct 2008
Downloads
177
Downloads
8,384
5.
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
8,092
6.
Financial Scandals and the Role of Private Enforcement: The Parmalat Case
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 40/2005
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 27 May 2005
Working Paper Series
University of Genoa - Law Department and Centre for Law and Finance and Free University of Bozen, Bolzano - School of Economics and Management
Downloads
7,155
7.
Modern Company and Capital Market Problems: Improving European Corporate Governance after Enron
AFTER ENRON, IMPROVING CORPORATE LAW AND MODERNISING SECURITIES REGULATION IN EUROPE AND THE U.S., pp. 445-496, J. Armour, J. A. McCahery, eds., Oxford (Hart), 2006, ECGI Law Working Paper No. 05/2002, ECGI Finance Working Paper
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 11 Dec 2002
Last Revised: 06 Dec 2009
Working Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
Downloads
6,878
8.
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
, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 135/2009
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 21 Jul 2009
Last Revised: 01 Feb 2010
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
6,044
9.
The Costs and Benefits of Financial Market Regulation
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 21/2004
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 29 Apr 2004
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads
5,663
10.
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
J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main and Stanford Law School
Downloads
5,453
11.
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
Stanford Law School
Downloads
5,264
12.
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
5,181
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
472
Downloads
5,181
13.
European Company Law 1999-2010: Renaissance and Crisis
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 175/2011, Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 63/2010
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 14 Oct 2010
Last Revised: 27 Jan 2011
Working Paper Series
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law and University of Hamburg - Institute of Law & Economics
Downloads
4,871
14.
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
4,775
15.
Corporate Governance and Innovation - Venture Capital, Joint Ventures, and Family Businesses
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 65/2006
Number of pages: 73
Posted: 04 Apr 2006
Working Paper Series
Tilburg University - School of Law; European Banking Center (EBC) and Tilburg University - Department of Business Law
Downloads
4,526
16.
International Differences in the Cost of Equity Capital: Do Legal Institutions and Securities Regulation Matter?
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 15/2003, Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research Working Paper No. 17-04, AFA 2005 Philadelphia Meetings
Number of pages: 65
Posted: 21 Dec 2004
Working Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
There are 2 versions of this paper
International Differences in the Cost of Equity Capital: Do Legal Institutions and Securities Regulation Matter?
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 15/2003, Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research Working Paper No. 17-04, AFA 2005 Philadelphia Meetings
Number of pages: 65
Posted: 21 Dec 2004
Downloads
4,454
International Differences in the Cost of Equity Capital: Do Legal Institutions and Securities Regulation Matter?
Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 485-531, 2006
Posted: 17 Jan 2006
Last Revised: 20 Nov 2011
Downloads
4,454
17.
Hedge Funds, Insiders, and the Decoupling of Economic and Voting Ownership: Empty Voting and Hidden (Morphable) Ownership
Journal of Corporate Finance, vol. 13, pp. 343-367, 2007, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 56/2006, McCombs Research Paper Series No. FIN-02-06, U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 53
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 10 Jan 2006
Accepted Paper Series
University of Texas at Austin - School of Law and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads
4,418
18.
The Takeover Directive as a Protectionist Tool?
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 141/2010
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 01 Apr 2010
Last Revised: 15 Jun 2010
Working Paper Series
University of Oxford- Faculty of Law, London School of Economics - Law Department and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Downloads
4,397
19.
Executive Remuneration in the EU: Comparative Law and Practice
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 09/2003
Number of pages: 72
Posted: 04 Mar 2004
Working Paper Series
University of Genoa - Law Department and Centre for Law and Finance, London School of Economics - Law Department and ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Downloads
4,298
20.
Who Writes the Rules for Hostile Takeovers, and Why? The Peculiar Divergence of US and UK Takeover Regulation
Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 95, p. 1727, 2007, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 73/2006
Number of pages: 68
Posted: 08 Sep 2006
Last Revised: 23 Mar 2010
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law and University of Pennsylvania Law School
Downloads
3,973
21.
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
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads
3,965
22.
Corporate Governance Convergence: Evidence from Takeover Regulation Reforms
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 33/2005
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 22 Apr 2005
Working Paper Series
IE Business School, IE University, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Tilburg University - Department of Finance
Downloads
3,931
23.
Enforcement of Corporate Governance Codes
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 46/2005
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 19 Jul 2005
Last Revised: 04 Feb 2010
Working Paper Series
Ghent University - Financial Law Institute
Downloads
3,922
24.
Comparative Corporate Governance: The State of the Art and International Regulation
American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 59, p. 1, January 2011, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 170/2011
Number of pages: 83
Posted: 25 Nov 2010
Last Revised: 10 Mar 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
Downloads
3,711
25.
Regulation of Private Equity - Backed Leveraged Buyout Activity in Europe
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 84/2007
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 30 May 2007
Working Paper Series
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
Downloads
3,509
26.
The Eclipse of Private Equity
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 082/2007
Number of pages: 65
Posted: 24 Apr 2007
Working Paper Series
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law and University of Oxford - Faculty of Law
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Eclipse of Private Equity
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 082/2007
Number of pages: 65
Posted: 24 Apr 2007
Downloads
3,413
The Eclipse of Private Equity
Delaware Journal of Corporate Law (DJCL), Vol. 33, No. 1, 2008
Posted: 03 Oct 2008
Last Revised: 09 Feb 2009
Downloads
3,413
27.
The Transfer of the Company's Seat in European Company Law
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 08/2003
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 01 Apr 2003
Working Paper Series
Ghent University - Financial Law Institute
Downloads
3,325
28.
Company and Takeover Law Reforms in Europe: Misguided Harmonization Efforts or Regulatory Competition?
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 12/2003
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 08 Sep 2003
Working Paper Series
ETH Zurich and Tilburg University - School of Law; European Banking Center (EBC)
Downloads
3,231
29.
Shareholder Rights and Shareholder Activism: The Role of the General Meeting of Shareholders
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 188/2012
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 08 Mar 2012
Last Revised: 02 Aug 2012
Working Paper Series
Tilburg Law School
Downloads
3,115
30.
Boards in Europe – Accountability and Convergence
American Journal of Comparative Law 61 (2013) 301-375, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 205/2013, Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 40/2013
Number of pages: 67
Posted: 09 Feb 2013
Last Revised: 17 Dec 2013
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oxford- Faculty of Law and Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
Downloads
2,954
31.
Empty Voting and Hidden (Morphable) Ownership: Taxonomy, Implications, and Reforms
As published in Business Lawyer, Vol. 61, pp. 1011-1070, 2006, European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Research Paper No. 64/2006, University of Texas Law, Law and Economics Research Paper No. 70
Number of pages: 61
Posted: 28 Feb 2006
Last Revised: 11 Mar 2008
Accepted Paper Series
University of Texas at Austin - School of Law and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads
2,945
32.
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
2,936
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
801
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
2,936
33.
Mandatory Bids, Squeeze-Out, Sell-Out and the Dynamics of the Tender Offer Process
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 10/2003
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 14 Jul 2003
Working Paper Series
Swedish House of Finance and Bocconi University - Department of Economics
Downloads
2,917
34.
Hedge Funds and Governance Targets
Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 95, p. 1375, 2007, Georgetown Law and Economics Research Paper No. 928689, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 80/2007
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 06 Sep 2006
Last Revised: 12 Aug 2010
Working Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Downloads
2,886
35.
One Share - One Vote: A European Rule?
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 58/2006
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 25 Jan 2006
Working Paper Series
University of Genoa - Law Department and Centre for Law and Finance
There are 2 versions of this paper
One Share - One Vote: A European Rule?
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 58/2006
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 25 Jan 2006
Downloads
2,859
One Share - One Vote: A European Rule?
European Company and Financial Law Review, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2006
Posted: 23 Apr 2007
Downloads
2,859
36.
Enforcement Strategies in UK Corporate Governance: A Roadmap and Empirical Assessment
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 106/2008
Number of pages: 64
Posted: 21 May 2008
Working Paper Series
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law
Downloads
2,803
37.
The Agency Costs of Agency Capitalism: Activist Investors and the Revaluation of Governance Rights
Columbia Law Review, 2013 (Forthcoming), ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 197, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 438, Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 130
Number of pages: 67
Posted: 24 Jan 2013
Last Revised: 31 May 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford Law School and Columbia Law School
Downloads
2,777
38.
Did Corporate Governance 'Fail' During the 2008 Stock Market Meltdown? The Case of the S&P 500
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 124/2009
Number of pages: 55
Posted: 04 May 2009
Last Revised: 19 Oct 2010
Working Paper Series
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
There are 2 versions of this paper
Did Corporate Governance 'Fail' During the 2008 Stock Market Meltdown? The Case of the S&P 500
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 124/2009
Number of pages: 55
Posted: 04 May 2009
Last Revised: 19 Oct 2010
Downloads
2,726
Did Corporate Governance 'Fail' during the 2008 Stock Market Meltdown? The Case of the S&P 500
Business Lawyer, Vol. 65, No. 1, 2009
Posted: 03 Feb 2010
Downloads
2,726
39.
Who Should Make Corporate Law? EC Legislation Versus Regulatory Competition
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 54/2005
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 30 Nov 2005
Working Paper Series
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law
There are 2 versions of this paper
Who Should Make Corporate Law? EC Legislation Versus Regulatory Competition
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 54/2005
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 30 Nov 2005
Downloads
2,703
Who Should Make Corporate Law? EC Legislation Versus Regulatory Competition
Current Legal Problems, Vol. 48, 2005
Number of pages: 53
Posted: 20 Jul 2005
Downloads
527
Downloads
2,703
40.
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
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law and Stanford Law School
Downloads
2,649
41.
The Future of Financial Regulation
Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 386
Number of pages: 158
Posted: 06 Jun 2009
Last Revised: 16 Jun 2010
Working Paper Series
Yale Law School and Yale Law School
Downloads
2,639
42.
Comparing Insider Trading in the United States and in the European Union: History and Recent Developments
European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 257/2014, Bocconi Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2442049
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 29 May 2014
Last Revised: 09 Apr 2015
Working Paper Series
Pennsylvania State University, Penn State Law
Downloads
2,627
43.
European Company Law and Corporate Governance: Where Does the Action Plan of the European Commission Lead?
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 52/2005, CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN CONTEXT - CORPORATIONS, STATES, AND MARKETS IN EUROPE, JAPAN AND THE US, K. J. Hopt, E. Wymeersch, H. Kanda, H. Baum, eds., pp. 119-142, Oxford (Oxford University Press) 2005
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 02 Dec 2005
Last Revised: 11 Dec 2009
Working Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
Downloads
2,557
44.
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
2,474
45.
Where Do Firms Incorporate? Deregulation and the Cost of Entry
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 70/2006, Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol. 14, No. 3, 2008
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 02 Jun 2006
Working Paper Series
Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (ULB), University of Oxford - Said Business School and Bocconi University - Department of Finance
There are 2 versions of this paper
Where Do Firms Incorporate? Deregulation and the Cost of Entry
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 70/2006, Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol. 14, No. 3, 2008
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 02 Jun 2006
Downloads
2,465
Downloads
41
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2,465
46.
The Promise and Peril of Corporate Governance Indices
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 89/2007, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 367
Number of pages: 91
Posted: 14 Oct 2007
Last Revised: 15 Feb 2009
Working Paper Series
University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Finance, Global Board Center and Yale Law School
Downloads
2,450
47.
How Does Corporate Mobility Affect Lawmaking? A Comparative Analysis
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 91/2008, Georgetown Law and Economics Research Paper No. 1086667, Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics Working Paper No. 2008-01
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 25 Jan 2008
Last Revised: 30 Mar 2011
Working Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania Law School, Tilburg University - School of Law; European Banking Center (EBC) and Tilburg University - Department of Business Law
Downloads
2,419
48.
Executive Compensation: If There's a Problem, What's the Remedy? The Case for "Compensation Discussion and Analysis"
Journal of Corporation Law, Summer, 2006, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 273, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 05-90, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 35/2005
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 12 Apr 2005
Accepted Paper Series
Columbia Law School
Downloads
2,411
49.
Disclosure and Financial Market Regulation
Forthcoming Draft Chapter in The Oxford Handbook on Financial Regulation, edited by Eilís Ferran, Niamh Moloney, and Jennifer Payne, (Oxford University Press)., European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 252/2014, Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 68/2014
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 12 Apr 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oxford Faculty of Law and University of Bologna - Faculty of Law
Downloads
2,395
50.
The Present and Future of Corporate Governance: Re-Examining the Role of the Board of Directors and Investor Relations in Listed Companies
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 211, Lex Research Topics in Corporate Law & Economics Working Paper No. 2013-3
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 22 Apr 2013
Last Revised: 28 Jun 2013
Working Paper Series
Tilburg University - School of Law; European Banking Center (EBC), Tilburg University - Department of Business Law and Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry
Downloads
2,335
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