Paul G. Mahoney

University of Virginia School of Law

David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor

580 Massie Road

Charlottesville, VA 22903

United States

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The Common Law and Economic Growth: Hayek Might Be Right

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The Common Law and Economic Growth: Hayek Might Be Right

University of Virginia Law School, Legal Studies Working Paper No. 00-8
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 31 Jan 2000
Paul G. Mahoney
University of Virginia School of Law
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The Common Law and Economic Growth: Hayek Might Be Right

Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 503-525, June 2001
Posted: 12 Nov 2001
Paul G. Mahoney
University of Virginia School of Law

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Market Manipulation: A Comprehensive Study of Stock Pools

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Market Manipulation: A Comprehensive Study of Stock Pools

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 28 Sep 2004
Guolin Jiang, Paul G. Mahoney and Jianping Mei
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, University of Virginia School of Law and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
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Manipulation, market regulation, politics of finance

Market Manipulation: A Comprehensive Study of Stock Pools

Journal of Financial Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 07 Feb 2005
Guolin Jiang, Paul G. Mahoney and Jianping Mei
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, University of Virginia School of Law and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
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Manipulation, market regulation, politics of finance

Market Manipulation: A Comprehensive Study of Stock Pools

NYU Working Paper No. FIN-04-022
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 03 Nov 2008
Guolin Jiang, Paul G. Mahoney and Jianping Mei
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, University of Virginia School of Law and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
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Manipulation, Market regulation, Politics of finance

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Manager-Investor Conflicts in Mutual Funds

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 26 Mar 2004
Paul G. Mahoney
University of Virginia School of Law
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mutual funds, agency costs

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Advisers by Another Name

Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2021-01
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 20 Jan 2021
Paul G. Mahoney and Adriana Robertson
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Chicago Law School
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Index funds, passive investment, mutual funds, Investment Advisers Act, Investment Company Act

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Corporate Financial Transactions

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 26 Oct 1999
Robert F. Bruner, Robert S. Harris, Michael P. Dooley and Paul G. Mahoney
University of Virginia - Darden School of Business, University of Virginia - Darden School of Business, affiliation not provided to SSRN (deceased) and University of Virginia School of Law
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The New Separation of Ownership and Control: Institutional Investors and ESG

Columbia Business Law Review 2021(2) , Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2021-09, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2021-18
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 23 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 26 Aug 2021
Paul G. Mahoney and Julia D. Mahoney
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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ESG, retail investors, institutional investors, securities regulation, disclosure, investments, ESG ratings, sustainability, CSR, SRI, corporate social responsibility, socially responsible investment

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The Economics of Securities Regulation: A Survey

Foundations and Trends in Finance, forthcoming, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2021-14
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 24 Aug 2021
Paul G. Mahoney
University of Virginia School of Law
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Securities regulation, mandatory disclosure; Securities and Exchange Commission; law and finance; politics of finance

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The Value of Judicial Independence: Evidence from 18th Century England

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The Value of Judicial Independence: Evidence from 18th Century England

Univ. of Virginia Law & Econ Research Paper No. 03-12; USC Law and Public Policy Research Paper No. 04-2; USC Law School, Olin Research Paper No. 04-2
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 09 Feb 2004
Daniel M. Klerman and Paul G. Mahoney
University of Southern California Gould School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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Judicial independence, Glorious Revolution, law and finance

The Value of Judicial Independence: Evidence from 18th Century England

7 American Law & Economics Review 1-27 (2005), USC Law and Public Policy Research Paper No. 04-27, USC CLASS Research Paper No. 04-27
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 06 Sep 2004 Last Revised: 19 Dec 2014
Daniel M. Klerman and Paul G. Mahoney
University of Southern California Gould School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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Judicial independence, Glorious Revolution, law and finance

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The Regulation of Trading Markets: A Survey and Evaluation

Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2017-07
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 19 Apr 2017
Paul G. Mahoney and Gabriel V. Rauterberg
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Michigan Law School
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market regulation, market structure

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The Appraisal Remedy and Merger Premiums

USC CLEO Research Paper No. 99-5
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 10 Mar 1999
Paul G. Mahoney and Mark Weinstein
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department
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Competing Norms and Social Evolution: Is the Fittest Norm Efficient?

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Competing Norms and Social Evolution: Is the Fittest Norm Efficient?

UVA Law School, Legal Studies Working Paper No. 00-15
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 26 May 2000
Paul G. Mahoney and Chris William Sanchirico
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Competing Norms and Social Evolution: Is the Fittest Norm Efficient?

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 149, 2001
Posted: 31 May 2001
Paul G. Mahoney and Chris William Sanchirico
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

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The Political Economy of the Securities Act of 1933

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The Political Economy of the Securities Act of 1933

UVA Law School, Legal Studies Working Paper No. 00-11
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 11 May 2000
Paul G. Mahoney
University of Virginia School of Law
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The Political Economy of the Securities Act of 1933

Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 30, No. 1, January 2001
Posted: 20 Mar 2001
Paul G. Mahoney
University of Virginia School of Law

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Legal Origin or Colonial History?

3 Journal of Legal Analysis 379-409 (2011), USC CLEO Research Paper No. C11-9, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 11-16, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2011-03
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 03 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 17 Dec 2014
Daniel M. Klerman, Paul G. Mahoney, Holger Spamann and Mark Weinstein
University of Southern California Gould School of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, Harvard Law School and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department
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legal origin, colonial origin, colonial history, economic growth, civil law, common law

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The Origins of the Blue Sky Laws: A Test of Competing Hypotheses

UVA Law & Economics Research Paper No. 01-11
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 10 Jan 2002
Paul G. Mahoney
University of Virginia School of Law
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Blue sky laws, political choice, event history

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The SEC's Misguided Climate Disclosure Rule Proposal

GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 61, 2022, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 61, 2022, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2022-27, 41 Banking & Financial Services Policy Report 1, 2022, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 22-17, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 4256724
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 27 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 05 Jan 2023
Lawrence A. Cunningham, Stephen M. Bainbridge, Jonathan Berk, Sanjai Bhagat, Bernard S. Black, William J. Carney, David J. Denis, Diane K. Denis, Charles M. Elson, Jesse M. Fried, Sean J. Griffith, Jonathan M. Karpoff, F. Scott Kieff, Edmund W. Kitch, Kate Litvak, Julia D. Mahoney, Paul G. Mahoney, Adam C. Pritchard, Dale A. Oesterle, Roberta Romano, Christina Parajon Skinner and Todd J. Zywicki
George Washington University, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law, Stanford Graduate School of Business, University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Finance, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, Emory University School of Law, University of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh - Katz School of Business, University of Delaware - John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, Harvard Law School, Fordham University School of Law, University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business, George Washington University - Law School, University of Virginia School of Law, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, University of Michigan Law School, Ohio State University (OSU) - Michael E. Moritz College of Law, Yale Law School, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School
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SEC authority, climate disclosure, ESG, institutional investors, individual investors, information economics, government policy, financial markets, government power

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Norms, Repeated Games, and the Role of Law

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Norms, Repeated Games, and the Role of Law

UVA Law and Economics Research Paper No. 02-3
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 16 May 2002
Chris William Sanchirico and Paul G. Mahoney
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and University of Virginia School of Law
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Norms, Repeated Games, and the Role of Law

U of Penn. Law School, Public Law Working Paper 41; U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper 03-24
Posted: 06 Aug 2003
Paul G. Mahoney and Chris William Sanchirico
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

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social norms, game theory, repeated games, counterfactual problem, third-party enforcement problem, subgame perfection, tit-for-tat, def-for-dev, grim strategy

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Legal Origin?

35 Journal of Comparative Economics 278-293 (2007), University of Southern California CLEO Research Paper No. C07-5, University of Southern California Law Legal Studies Paper No. 07-3
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 07 Mar 2007 Last Revised: 17 Dec 2014
Daniel M. Klerman and Paul G. Mahoney
University of Southern California Gould School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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General and Specific Legal Rules

U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper 04-13
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 20 Jul 2004
Paul G. Mahoney and Chris William Sanchirico
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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legal rules, general versus specific rules, lobbying, rules versus standards, simple versus complex rules

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Mandatory vs. Contractual Disclosure in Securities Markets: Evidence from the 1930s

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 23 Feb 2006
Paul G. Mahoney and Jianping Mei
University of Virginia School of Law and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
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Mandatory disclosure, securities laws

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Deregulation and the Subprime Crisis

Virginia Law Review, Forthcoming, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2017-08
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 24 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2017
Paul G. Mahoney
University of Virginia School of Law
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deregulation, financial crisis, prudential regulation

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Equity Market Structure Regulation: Time to Start Over

Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2020-11
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 09 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 31 Aug 2020
Paul G. Mahoney
University of Virginia School of Law
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Reg NMS, equity market structure, trading markets

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The Public Utility Pyramids

Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2010-09
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 06 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 08 Sep 2011
Paul G. Mahoney
University of Virginia School of Law
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Corporate Structure, Pyramids, Concentrated Ownership, Public Utilities

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Adam Smith, Prophet of Law & Economics

Journal of Legal Studies, Forthcoming, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2016-5
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 25 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 13 Apr 2017
Paul G. Mahoney
University of Virginia School of Law
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Adam Smith, jurisprudence, law & economics

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The Development of Securities Law in the United States

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 29 Apr 2009
Paul G. Mahoney
University of Virginia School of Law
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Norms and Signals: Some Skeptical Observations

UVA Law & Economics Research Paper No. 01-7
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 21 Nov 2001
Paul G. Mahoney
University of Virginia School of Law
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Soft Dollars, Hard Choices: Reconciling US and EU Policies on Sell-Side Research

Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2019-21
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 16 Dec 2019
Paul G. Mahoney
University of Virginia School of Law
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Soft-dollar brokerage, sell-side research

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The Regulatory Effect: Did Regulatory Change Slow Credit Growth after the Great Depression and Great Recession?

Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2019-12
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 19 Jun 2019
Paul G. Mahoney
University of Virginia School of Law
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Regulation, Great Depression, financial crises

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Trust and Opportunism in Close Corporations

NBER Working Paper No. w6819
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 31 Dec 1998 Last Revised: 21 Aug 2022
Paul G. Mahoney
University of Virginia School of Law
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IPO Underpricing: A Tale of a Different 1920s

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 20 Apr 2022
Jie Gan, Paul G. Mahoney and Jianping Mei
Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia School of Law and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
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IPO underpricing, market efficiency, regulation

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Editor's Introduction

American Law and Economics Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 239-275, 1999
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
Paul G. Mahoney and Mark Weinstein
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department

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Were the Stock Pools Manipulative?

University of Virginia Legal Studies Working Paper No. 96-8
Posted: 13 Jun 1998
Paul G. Mahoney
University of Virginia School of Law

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The Exchange as Regulator

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 83, No. 7, 1997
Posted: 25 Jul 1997
Paul G. Mahoney
University of Virginia School of Law

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Technology, Property Rights in Information, and Securities Regulation

Washington University Law Quarterly Symposium on Electronic Technology and Securities Regulation, Vol. 75, No. 2 (1997).
Posted: 11 Jun 1997
Paul G. Mahoney
University of Virginia School of Law

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Contract Remedies: A Survey and Critique

Boudewijn Bouckaert and Gerrit De Geest (eds.), Encyclopedia of Law & Economics, Edward Elgar, Cheltemham, 1997, No. 7400
Posted: 10 Mar 1997
Paul G. Mahoney
University of Virginia School of Law

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