Jonathan R. Macey

Yale Law School

Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, and Securities Law

P.O. Box 208215

New Haven, CT 06520-8215

United States

European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

c/o the Royal Academies of Belgium

Rue Ducale 1 Hertogsstraat

1000 Brussels

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1.

The Corporate Governance of Banks

Economic Policy Review, Vol. 9, No. 1, April 2003
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 07 Sep 2005
Jonathan R. Macey and Maureen O'Hara
Yale Law School and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
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corporate governance, commercial banks, fiduciary duties

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Finding Order in the Morass: The Three Real Justifications for Piercing the Corporate Veil

Cornell Law Review, Forthcoming, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 488
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 19 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 25 Sep 2014
Jonathan R. Macey and Joshua Mitts
Yale Law School and Columbia Law School
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Down and Out in the Stock Market: The Law and Finance of the Delisting Process

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 31 Aug 2004
Jonathan R. Macey, Maureen O'Hara and David Pompilio
Yale Law School, Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
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ESG Investing: Why Here? Why Now?

Yale Law & Economics Research Paper Forthcoming, Law & Economics Center at George Mason University Scalia Law School Research Paper Series No. 22-013
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 26 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2022
Jonathan R. Macey
Yale Law School
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Corporate Governance, ESG Investing

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Was Arthur Andersen Different? An Empirical Examination of Major Accounting Firms' Audits of Large Clients

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 04-03, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 287
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 26 Nov 2003
Theodore Eisenberg (Deceased) and Jonathan R. Macey
Cornell University - Law School and Yale Law School
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Reducing Systemic Risk: The Role of Money Market Mutual Funds as Substitutes for Federally Insured Bank Deposits

Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 422
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 05 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 23 Jan 2011
Jonathan R. Macey
Yale Law School
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banks, financial institutions, mutual funds, money market mutual funds, net asset value, regulation, securities, Securities and Exchange Commission, Rule 2a-7

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Citizens United As Bad Corporate Law

U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 18-28, Harvard Law School, John M. Olin Institute for Law, Economics, and Business Discussion Paper No. 972, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 598
Number of pages: 106 Posted: 05 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 12 Sep 2018
Jonathan R. Macey and Leo E. Strine Jr.
Yale Law School and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
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The Central Role of Myth in Corporate Law

European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 519/2020
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 14 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 26 May 2020
Jonathan R. Macey
Yale Law School
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corporations, myth, legitimization

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Observations on the Role of Commodification, Independence and Governance in the Accounting Industry

Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 294; and Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2003-18
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 08 Dec 2003
Jonathan R. Macey and Hillary A. Sale
Yale Law School and Georgetown University Law Center
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Enron, Corporate Governance, Securities Law, Securities Regulation, Corporate Law, Sarbanes-Oxley

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Towards a New Theory of Corporate Governance: Objectivity Versus Proximity

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 21 Mar 2005
Arnoud W. A. Boot, Jonathan R. Macey and Anjolein Schmeits
University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School, Yale Law School and New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
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Corporate governance, monitoring, asset structure

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Objectivity, Proximity and Adaptability in Corporate Governance

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 15 Jul 2000
Arnoud W. A. Boot and Jonathan R. Macey
University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School and Yale Law School
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Helping Law Catch Up to Markets: Applying Broker-Dealer Law to Subprime Mortgages

Journal of Corporation Law, Vol. 33, 2009, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 359, Johnson School Research Paper Series No. #12-09
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 23 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2009
Jonathan R. Macey, Geoffrey P. Miller, Maureen O'Hara and Gabriel D. Rosenberg
Yale Law School, New York University School of Law, Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
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securities law, subprime, reves test, crisis, mortgage

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Securities Regulation as Class Warfare

Columbia Business Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 25 Feb 2021
Jonathan R. Macey
Yale Law School
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Securities Regulation, Efficiency, Fairness, GameStop, Robinhood, Reddit

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Delaware Law Mid-Century: Far From Perfect but Probably Not Leaving for Las Vegas

Yale Law & Economics Research Paper
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 04 Dec 2024 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2025
Jonathan R. Macey
Yale Law School
Downloads 662 (84,035)
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Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Controlling Shareholders, Fiduciary Duties, Jurisdictional Competition for Corporate Charters

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Bank Corporate Governance: A Proposal for the Post-Crisis World

Economic Policy Review, Issue Aug, pp. 85-105, 2016
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 23 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 16 Dec 2017
Jonathan R. Macey and Maureen O'Hara
Yale Law School and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
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banks, corporate governance, risk management, bank holding companies, BHC

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Stealing Fannie and Freddie

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 29 Apr 2014
Jonathan R. Macey and Logan Beirne
Yale Law School and Yale University - Law School
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Asking the Right Question: The Statutory Right of Appraisal and Efficient Markets

Yale Law & Economics Research Paper, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 428/2018, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 596
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 19 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2018
Jonathan R. Macey and Joshua Mitts
Yale Law School and Columbia Law School
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merger, acquisitions, appraisal, arbitrage, law, finance, efficient, markets

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Judicial Review of Class Action Settlements

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Judicial Review of Class Action Settlements

NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 07-34
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 26 Sep 2007
Jonathan R. Macey and Geoffrey P. Miller
Yale Law School and New York University School of Law
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Judicial Review of Class Action Settlements

The Journal of Legal Analysis, Vol. 1, No. 1, p. 167-205, 2009
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 26 Feb 2009
Jonathan R. Macey and Geoffrey P. Miller
Yale Law School and New York University School of Law
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judicial review, class action settlements

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From Orders to Markets

Regulation, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 62-70, Summer 2005, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 321
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 10 Aug 2005
Jonathan R. Macey and Maureen O'Hara
Yale Law School and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
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Brokers, best execution, traders, securities law

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Extended Shareholder Liability for Systemically Important Financial Institutions

American University Law Review, Forthcoming, European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 477/2019
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 21 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2019
Alessandro Romano, Luca Enriques and Jonathan R. Macey
Bocconi University - Department of Law, Bocconi University - Bocconi Law Department and Yale Law School
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Corporate Law, Financial Regulation, Systemically Important Financial Institutions, Limited Liability, Too-Big-To-Fail, Shareholder Liability

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Banks: Fundamental Concepts

Carnell, Macey & Miller: The Law of Banking and Financial Institutions (Wolters Kluwer 2017 Forthcoming), NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 16-37, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2847297
Number of pages: 86 Posted: 05 Oct 2016
Richard Scott Carnell, Jonathan R. Macey and Geoffrey P. Miller
Fordham University School of Law, Yale Law School and New York University School of Law
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Government as Contractual Claimant: Tax Policy and the State

Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 327, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 105, Social Philosophy and Policy, Summer 2006
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 25 Jan 2006
Jonathan R. Macey
Yale Law School
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Tax Policy, Finance, law and economics

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Beyond the Personal Benefit Test: The Economics of Tipping by Insiders

Journal of Law and Public Affairs Vol. 2 (2) 2017, Forthcoming, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 565
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 17 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 07 Jan 2017
Jonathan R. Macey
Yale Law School
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insider trading, tippee liability, Rule 10b-5, corporate finance, Securities Regulation, corporations

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Agency Costs, Corporate Governance and the American Labor Union

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 08 Dec 2019
Jonathan R. Macey
Yale Law School
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labor law, labor unions, corporate governance, agency costs

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Commission Gallagher's and Professor Grundfest's Wrongful Attack on the Shareholder Rights Project

Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 526
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 29 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 06 Aug 2015
Jonathan R. Macey
Yale Law School
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Shareholder Rights Project, Daniel Gallagher, Joseph Grundfest, Rule 14a-8, shareholder proposals, classified boards, staggered boards, declassification, destaggering

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Fair Credit Markets: Using Household Balance Sheets to Promote Consumer Welfare

Forthcoming, Texas Law Review, Vol. 100, No. 1, 2022
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 25 Feb 2021
Jonathan R. Macey
Yale Law School
Downloads 206 (309,077)

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consumer protection, predatory lending, payday loans

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Extended Shareholder Liability for Systemically Important Financial Institutions

European Banking Institute Working Paper Series – no. 52 (2019)
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 28 Oct 2019
Alessandro Romano, Luca Enriques and Jonathan R. Macey
Bocconi University - Department of Law, Bocconi University - Bocconi Law Department and Yale Law School
Downloads 180 (349,868)
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Corporate Law, Financial Regulation, Systemically Important Financial Institutions, Limited Liability, Too-Big-To-Fail, Shareholder Liability

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Toward a "Tender Offer" Market for Labor Representation

Boston College Law Review, Forthcoming, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 785, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 947
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 18 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 24 Oct 2024
Aneil Kovvali and Jonathan R. Macey
Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Yale Law School
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labor law, labor unions, agency costs, collective bargaining, market for corporate control

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Proposed Brief of Current and Retired Practitioners and Professors as Amici Curiae in Support of Reversal in In re Tesla, Inc. Derivative Litigation

Number of pages: 33
Stanley Keller, John Olson, David Schellhase, Marc Sonnenfeld, Robert Anderson, Stephen M. Bainbridge, Jeffrey L. Coles, Ronald J. Colombo, Benjamin Edwards, Martin Edwards, Richard Epstein, Caleb N. Griffin, Sean J. Griffith, M. Todd Henderson, Swaminathan L. Kalpathy, Steven N. Kaplan, Jeremy Kidd, Jonathan R. Macey, Ivan Marinovic, Robert T. Miller, George A. Mocsary, Seth Oranburg, Charles R.T. O'Kelley, Keith Sharfman, Kelly Shue, JW Verret and Charles K. Whitehead
Troutman Sanders LLP, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville - School of Law, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law, University of Utah - Department of Finance, Hofstra University - Maurice A. Deane School of Law, University of Nevada, William S. Boyd School of Law, The University of Mississippi School of Law, New York University School of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law, Fordham University School of Law, University of Chicago - Law School, Texas Christian University - M.J. Neeley School of Business, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Drake University - Law School, Yale Law School, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, University of Iowa College of Law, University of Wyoming College of Law, University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law, Adolf A. Berle, Jr. Center on Corporations, Law and Society, Seattle University School of Law, St. John's University School of Law, Yale School of Management, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Cornell Law School
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Are Banks Obsolete?

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 18 Jan 2025 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2025
Jonathan R. Macey
Yale Law School
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finance, banking, law and economics, macroeconomics, financial regulation

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"Fair is Fair" in Corporate Law

Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 2025-01
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 18 Feb 2025
Jonathan R. Macey
Yale Law School
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Creditors Versus Capital Formation: The Case Against the European Legal Capital Rules

Posted: 06 Jan 2002
Luca Enriques and Jonathan R. Macey
Bocconi University - Bocconi Law Department and Yale Law School

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The Business of Banking: Before and after Gramm-Leach-Bliley

Posted: 05 Jan 2001
Jonathan R. Macey
Yale Law School

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Measuring the Effectiveness of Different Corporate Governance Systems: Toward a More Scientific Approach

Bank of America Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 63, No. 2, 1998.
Posted: 05 Oct 1998
Jonathan R. Macey
Yale Law School

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Flexibility in Determining the Role of the Board of Directors in the Age of Information

In the Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 19, No. 2, 1997.
Posted: 02 Oct 1998
Jonathan R. Macey and Jim Holdcroft
Yale Law School and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Objectivity, Control, and Adaptability in Corporate Governance

Posted: 23 Sep 1998
Arnoud W. A. Boot and Jonathan R. Macey
University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School and Yale Law School

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The Law and Economics of Best Execution

In the Journal of Financial Intermediation, Vol. 6, No. 3 (1997).
Posted: 08 Oct 1997
Maureen O'Hara and Jonathan R. Macey
Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and Yale Law School

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An Economic Analysis of Conflicts of Interest Regulation

Iowa Law Review, Vol. 82, No. 3 (1997).
Posted: 31 Jan 1997
Jonathan R. Macey and Geoffrey P. Miller
Yale Law School and New York University School of Law

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