Ron Harris

Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law

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Scholarly Papers (26)

1.

A New Understanding of the History of Limited Liability: An Invitation for Theoretical Reframing

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 23 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 13 May 2020
Ron Harris
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
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Corporations, Limited Liability, History, Institutions, Organizations, Stock Markets

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Ownership and Control in the Entrepreneurial Firm: An International History of Private Limited Companies

Yale University Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper No. 959
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 13 Dec 2007
Yale University - Department of Economics, Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Yale University and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics
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limited company, partnership, corporation, legal regime, common law, civil law

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The Formation of the East India Company as a Cooperation-Enhancing Institution

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 10 Jan 2006
Ron Harris
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
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Impersonal cooperation, Insiders, Public Corporation, Eurasian trade, East India Company

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The Uses of History in Law and Economics

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 22 Oct 2003
Ron Harris
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
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Law and Economics, History, Methodology, Institutions, Change Over Time

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Law, Finance and the First Corporations

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE RULE OF LAW, James J. Heckman, Robert L. Nelson, L. Cabatingan, eds., Abingdon: Routledge-Cavendish, 2009
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 21 Jan 2009
Ron Harris
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
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East India Company, Stock Market, Institutions, Eurasian Trade, England, Dutch Republic, History

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The Formation of the East India Company as a Deal between Entrepreneurs and Outside Investors

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 25 Jul 2004
Ron Harris
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
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Institutions, Joint-Stock, Business Corporation, England, Law, Voice, Exit

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The Transplantation of the Legal Discourse on Corporate Personality Theories: From German Codification to British Political Pluralism and American Big Business

Washington and Lee Law Review, Vol. 63, No. 4, 2007
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 25 Apr 2007
Ron Harris
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
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Corporations, History, Legal Entity, Legal Discourse

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The Private Origins of the Private Company: Britain 1862-1907

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 22 May 2010
Ron Harris
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
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Organizational Menu, Private Ordering, Corporations, Private Limited Liability Companies, Comparative Law, Legal Origins

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Recourse and Non-Recourse Mortgages: Foreclosure, Bankruptcy, Policy

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 18 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 30 Apr 2010
Ron Harris
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
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Strategic Default, Negative Equity, Home Mortgages, Foreclosure, Bankruptcy, Credit Market Regulation

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The Institutional Dynamics of Early Modern Eurasian Trade: The Commenda and the Corporation

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 02 Jan 2009
Ron Harris
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
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comparative institutional analysis, institutional transplants, China, India, Middle East, Europe, business organization

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Bankruptcy Policy in Light of Manipulation in Credit Advertising

Theoretical Inquiries in Law, July 2006
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 24 Jan 2006
Ron Harris and Einat Albin
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law
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Consumer Bankruptcy, Credit Regulation, Consumer Decision Making, Optimism Bias, Life Events

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Contractual Freedom and Corporate Governance in Britain in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 06 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 09 Feb 2017
Yale University - Department of Economics, Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Yale University
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limited company, corporation, common law, default rules, contracts, corporate governance

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Some Reflections on the Transplantation of British Company Law in Post Ottoman Palestine

Theoretical Inquiries in Law, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 14 Nov 2008
Ron Harris and Michael Crystal Q. C.
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law and 3-4 South Square Barristers
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Corporations, partnerships, transplants, colonial law

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Non-Recourse Mortgages – A Fresh Start

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 25 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 05 Apr 2012
Ron Harris and Asher Meir
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law and Jerusalem College of Technology
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mortgage, non-recourse, foreclosure, fresh start, insolvency, death spiral, adverse selection

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'Business Organization in the Long Run: Private Limited Companies Rule!'

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 23 Nov 2016
Yale University - Department of Economics, Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Yale University and CaltechCalifornia Institute of Technology (Caltech) - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Could the Crown Credibly Commit to Respecting its Charters? England, 1558-1640

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 17 Jan 2013
Ron Harris
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
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credible commitments, rule of law, charters, corporations, common law, property rights, monopoly, institutions

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Contractual Flexibility within the Common Law: Organizing Private Companies in Britain and the United States

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 23 Nov 2016
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Yale University
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Putting the Corporation in its Place

NBER Working Paper No. w13109
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 27 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2022
Yale University - Department of Economics, Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Yale University and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics
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Putting the Corporation in its Place

Enterprise and Society, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 687-729, 2007
Posted: 30 Jun 2008
Yale University - Department of Economics, Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Yale University and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics

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State Identity, Territorial Integrity and Party Banning: The Case of a Pan-Arab Political Party in Israel

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 23 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2016
Ron Harris
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
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General Average and All the Rest: The Law and Economics of Early Modern Maritime Risk Mitigation

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 19 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2021
Ron Harris
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
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Maritime Trade, Risk, Uncertainty, Institutions, Organizations, Marine Insurance, General Average, Business Corporations

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Private Valuation and Private Information: Can Mandatory Non-Recourse Mortgage Legislation Restore a Missing Market?

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 27 Mar 2012
Asher Meir and Ron Harris
Jerusalem College of Technology and Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
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Mortgage, Consumer Credit, Information, Adverse Selection, death spiral, moral hazard

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The History of Team Production Theory

University of Seattle Law Review Vol. 38, p. 537, 2015
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 21 Nov 2016
Ron Harris
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
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Legal Scholars, Economists and the Interdisciplinary Study of Institutions

Cornell Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 01 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 17 Jun 2012
Ron Harris
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
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Economists, methodology

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Contractual Freedom and the Evolution of Corporate Control in Britain, 1862 to 1929

NBER Working Paper No. w20481
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 15 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2022
Yale University - Department of Economics, Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Yale University
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Legitimizing the Imprisonment of Poor Debtors: Lawyers, Legislators, Judges

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 27 Nov 2016
Ron Harris
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
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The Politics of Historical Narratives: Comment on David Rabban’s Law’s History

Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies, Vol. 1, p. 81, 2010
Posted: 22 Aug 2010
Ron Harris
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law

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Transatlantic Turn