Zohar Goshen

Columbia Law School

Jerome L. Greene Professor of Transactional Law

435 W 116th St

New York, NY 10027

United States

European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

Research Member

c/o the Royal Academies of Belgium

Rue Ducale 1 Hertogsstraat

1000 Brussels

Belgium

Ono Academic College Faculty of Law

Professor of Law

104 Zahal St.

Kiryat Ono, 55000

Israel

http://www.ono.ac.il

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1.

The Essential Role of Securities Regulation

Duke Law Journal, Vol. 55, p. 711, 2006, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 259
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 05 Oct 2004 Last Revised: 14 Jan 2014
Zohar Goshen and Gideon Parchomovsky
Columbia Law School and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of LawUniversity of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Basic,Class Action, Class Certification, fraud-on-the-market, Halliburton, Securities Litigation, mandatory disclosure, efficient market, agency cost, Information asymmetry, analysts, accurate pricing, liquidity, insider trading, fraud and manipulation, governance structure

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Principal Costs: A New Theory for Corporate Law and Governance

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 117, No. 767, 2017, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2571739, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-462
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 03 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 14 Jun 2017
Zohar Goshen and Richard Squire
Columbia Law School and Fordham University School of Law
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principal costs, agency costs, governance structure, theory of the firm, dual class, concentrated ownership, dispersed ownership,

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The Death of Corporate Law

New York University Law Review, Vol. 94, No. 263, 2019, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 402/2018, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 02 May 2018 Last Revised: 09 May 2019
Zohar Goshen and Sharon Hannes
Columbia Law School and Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
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Corporate Law, Corporate Governance, Delaware Courts, Institutional Investors, Hedge Fund Activism, Control Rights, Corporate Litigation, Principal Costs, Agency Costs, Incomplete Contracts, Contract Design, Enforcement

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Corporate Control and Idiosyncratic Vision

Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 444, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 206, Yale Law Journal, Vol. 125, 2016
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 04 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 20 Jan 2016
Zohar Goshen and Assaf Hamdani
Columbia Law School and Tel Aviv University; Buchman Faculty of Law; Coller School of Management
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Concentrated Ownership, Dispersed Ownership, Corporate Law, Self Dealing, Entire Fairness, Dividend, Freezeout, Business Judgment Rule, Agency Cost, Control Premium, Financial Contracting, Asymmetric Information, Idiosyncratic Vision, Dual Class Shares, Controlling Shareholder, Minority Protection

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Agents of Inequality: Common Ownership And The Decline Of The American Worker

Duke Law Journal, Vol. 72, No. 1, 2022, European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 584/2021, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 653
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 23 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 23 Oct 2022
Zohar Goshen and Doron Levit
Columbia Law School and University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business
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Common ownership, institutional investors, corporate governance, labor monopsony, income inequality

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The Efficiency of Controlling Corporate Self-Dealing: Theory Meets Reality

California Law Review, Vol. 91, No. 393, 2003
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 20 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 09 May 2018
Zohar Goshen
Columbia Law School
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Corporate Law, Self-Dealing, Controlling Shareholders, Majority of Minority, Entire Fairness, Delaware Law, Adjudication Cost, Negotiation Cost, Liability Rule, Property Rule, Minority Shareholders, Comparative Corporate Law

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Barbarians Inside the Gates: Raiders, Activists, and the Risk of Mistargeting

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 132, No. 411, 2022, European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 613/2021, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 664
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 25 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 18 Mar 2023
Zohar Goshen and Reilly Steel
Columbia Law School and Columbia Law School
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Corporate Law, Securities Regulations, Corporate Governance, Delaware Courts, Institutional Investors, Hedge Fund Activism, Principal Costs, Agency Costs,

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On Insider Trading, Markets, and 'Negative' Property Rights in Information

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 87, 2001, Fordham Law & Economics Research Paper No. 06
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 16 Feb 2001 Last Revised: 03 Feb 2016
Zohar Goshen and Gideon Parchomovsky
Columbia Law School and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of LawUniversity of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Corporate Control, Dual Class, and the Limits of Judicial Review

European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 462/2019, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 605, Columbia Law Review, Vol. 120, No. 941, 2020
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 20 May 2019 Last Revised: 07 Jul 2020
Zohar Goshen and Assaf Hamdani
Columbia Law School and Tel Aviv University; Buchman Faculty of Law; Coller School of Management
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control rights, agency costs, idiosyncratic vision, dual class, corporate law, entire fairness, self-dealing, valuation, Delaware courts

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Irrelevance of Governance Structure

Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 603, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 606/2019
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 12 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 13 May 2020
Zohar Goshen and Doron Levit
Columbia Law School and University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business
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Corporate Governance, Market Power, Shareholder Rights, Control Rights, Agency Costs, Principal Costs

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The Value of the Freezeout Option

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 29 Nov 2004
Zohar Goshen and Zvi Wiener
Columbia Law School and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Jerusalem School of Business Administration
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freezeout, appraisal, asymmetric information, inside information, efficient market, courts performance

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Poor ESG: Regressive Effects of Climate Stewardship

European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 764/2024, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 4771137
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 08 Apr 2024 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2024
Zohar Goshen, Assaf Hamdani and Alex Raskolnikov
Columbia Law School, Tel Aviv University; Buchman Faculty of Law; Coller School of Management and Columbia University - Law School
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ESG, Climate Stewardship, Regressive effects, political backlash, universal owners,

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Will Systematic Stewardship Save the Planet?

European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 739/2023
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 13 Nov 2023 Last Revised: 07 Feb 2024
Zohar Goshen and Assaf Hamdani
Columbia Law School and Tel Aviv University; Buchman Faculty of Law; Coller School of Management
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systematic stewardship, carbon emissions, ESG, ESG funds, universal owners, hedge funds, agency costs

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Common Ownership and Hedge Fund Activism: An Unholy Alliance?

European Corporate Governance Institute – Finance Working Paper No. 982/2024
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 21 May 2024
Zohar Goshen and Doron Levit
Columbia Law School and University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business
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Corporate Governance, Common Ownership, Market Power, Shareholder Rights, Hedge Fund Activism, Agency Costs, Principal Costs

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Controlling Strategic Voting: Property Rule or Liability Rule?

Southern California Law Review, Vol. 70, 741, 1997
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 01 Sep 2013
Zohar Goshen
Columbia Law School
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Strategic Voting, Conflict of Interest, Property Rule, Liability Rule, Corporate Vote, Vote Buying, Prisoner's Dilemma, Coordination problem, Free Riding, Collective Action problem, Coercive Voting, Holdout Problem, Takeovers, Reorganization of Voting Rights

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Voting (Sincerely) in Corporate Law

Theoretical Inquiries in Law, Vol. 2, p. 815, 2001
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 22 Sep 2005
Zohar Goshen
Columbia Law School
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Voting, strategic voting, conflict of interest, liability rules, property rules

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בית משפט כלכלי וקו הגבול שבין ניהול-כושל לניהול-חובל An Expert Corporate Court and the Fine Line Between Mismanagement and Self-Dealing

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 02 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2018
Zohar Goshen
Columbia Law School
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בית משפט כלכלי, חובת אמונים, חובת זהירות, כלל השיפוט העסקי, עסקאות תוך ניגוד עניינים, בעיית הנציג, בעיית הבעלים, דלוואר

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Fixing MFW: Fairness and Vision in Controller Self-Dealing

European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 818/2025
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 17 Dec 2024 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2025
Zohar Goshen, Assaf Hamdani and Dorothy S. Lund
Columbia Law School, Tel Aviv University; Buchman Faculty of Law; Coller School of Management and Columbia Law School
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