Katharina Pistor

Columbia University School of Law

Professor of Law

435 West 116th Street

New York, NY 10025

United States

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A Legal Theory of Finance

Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 41, No. 2, 2013, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 13-348
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 10 May 2013
Katharina Pistor
Columbia University School of Law
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Corporate Governance for Sustainability

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 07 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 30 Jun 2020
Warwick Law School, Nyenrode Business university, University of Oxford - Said Business School, University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR), University of Michigan, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), Columbia University School of Law, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris - Centre de Gestion Scientifique (CGS), Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Washington and Lee University - School of Law, University of Bristol, University of Oslo - Faculty of Law, University of Georgia School of Law, University of York - York Law School, City University London - The Business SchoolCardiff Business School, University of Bristol, Peter A. Allard School of Law, Ecole Universitaire de Management Clermont-Ferrand, University of Essex, University of San Francisco - School of Business and Management, University of New South Wales (UNSW) - UNSW Law & Justice, Drucker Institute, Essex Business School, Frank Bold, Morgan State University, Durham Business School, Liverpool Hope University, The University of Manchester - School of Law, De Montfort University - Faculty of Business and Law, Wellesley College - Department of Economics, University of Birmingham, Linnaeus University, Edge Hill University School of Law, Criminology and Policing, Queen Mary University of London - School of Law, University of California, Davis - School of Law, Queen's University Belfast - School of Law, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of South Australia, University of Leicester - Management Centre, University of York, HEC Paris, University of Glasgow, University College London - Faculty of Laws, School of Law, King's College, London; Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge, Royal Holloway, University of London, The City Law School, University of Sheffield, University College London, Faculty of LawsUniversity College London, Faculty of Laws, Nyenrode Business University, University of Oregon - Department of Management, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, University of Westminster, Universidad Andres Bello, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Alberta - Department of Accounting, Operations & Information Systems, Queen’s University, School of Business and Economics, Linnaeus University, University of Auckland Business School, Zefat Academic College, University of Leeds, University of Dundee - Department of Accountancy & Business Finance, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Oxford Brookes Business School, University of Leicester, Hofstra University College of Law, The Open University - Department of Political Economics, University of Leeds - School of Law, University of Massachusetts, University of Sheffield, School of Law, ICCE, Goldsmiths, University of London, University of Glasgow and College of Business, United Arab Emirates University
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corporate governance, company law, director duties, board obligations, sustainable finance action plan, sustainability strategy, ESG, shareholder primacy, sustainable development, climate change

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Legal Institutionalism: Capitalism and the Constitutive Role of Law

Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 45, No. 1, 2017, University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 26/2015
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 02 May 2015 Last Revised: 17 Mar 2017
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR), University of Warwick - Warwick Law School, Loughborough University London, Shandong University and Columbia University School of Law
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institutions, law, capitalism, theory of the firm, property rights

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Law and Finance in Transition Economies

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 19 Mar 2000
Katharina Pistor, Martin Raiser and Stanislaw Gelfer
Columbia University School of Law, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Credit Suisse First Boston
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shareholder and creditor rights, legal effectiveness, external finance

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Fiduciary Duty in Transitional Civil Law Jurisdictions Lessons from the Incomplete Law Theory

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 01/2002
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 24 Oct 2002
Katharina Pistor and Chenggang Xu
Columbia University School of Law and University of Hong Kong
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incomplete law, transition economies, fiduciary duty, law enforcement

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Law and Capitalism: What Corporate Crises Reveal about Legal Systems and Economic Development around the World

University of Chicago Press, 2008, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 313
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 20 May 2007
Curtis J. Milhaupt and Katharina Pistor
Stanford Law School and Columbia University School of Law
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legal systems, economic development, corporate governance

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The Evolution of Corporate Law: A Cross-Country Comparison

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 17 Jul 2003
Columbia University School of Law, Ernst & Young, London School of Economics - Law School and University of Michigan Law School
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Economic Development, Legality and the Transplant Effect

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 03 Jan 2000
Katharina Pistor, Daniel Berkowitz and Jean-Francois Richard
Columbia University School of Law, University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics and University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics
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Economic Development, Legality, and the Transplant Effect

Posted: 02 May 2003
Daniel Berkowitz, Katharina Pistor and Jean-Francois Richard
University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics, Columbia University School of Law and University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics

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Patterns of Legal Change: Shareholder and Creditor Rights in Transition Economies

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 19 Mar 2000
Katharina Pistor
Columbia University School of Law
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How Law Affects Lending

Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 285
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 13 Nov 2005 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2008
Rainer F. H. Haselmann, Katharina Pistor and Vikrant Vig
Goethe University Frankfurt - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Columbia University School of Law and London Business School
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Law, Finance, Bankruptcy, Secured Lending, Banks

How Law Affects Lending

The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 23, Issue 2, pp. 549-580, 2009
Posted: 01 Feb 2010
Rainer F. H. Haselmann, Katharina Pistor and Vikrant Vig
Goethe University Frankfurt - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Columbia University School of Law and London Business School

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Law Enforcement Under Incomplete Law: Theory and Evidence from Financial Market Regulation

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 23 Apr 2003
Chenggang Xu and Katharina Pistor
University of Hong Kong and Columbia University School of Law
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Law Enforcement Under Incomplete Law: Theory and Evidence from Financial Market Regulation

LSE STICERD Research Paper No. TE442
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 16 Jul 2008
Katharina Pistor and Chenggang Xu
Columbia University School of Law and University of Hong Kong
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Towards a Legal Theory of Finance

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 196, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 434
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 19 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 28 Feb 2014
Katharina Pistor
Columbia University School of Law
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Towards a Legal Theory of Finance

Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 12-323
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 21 Nov 2012
Katharina Pistor
Columbia University School of Law
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Towards a Legal Theory of Finance

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP9235
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 01 Feb 2013
Katharina Pistor
Columbia University School of Law
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Finance, Financial Crisis, Financial Regulation, Law, Political Economy, Power

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Legal Ground Rules in Coordinated and Liberal Market Economies

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 30/2005
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 04 Apr 2005
Katharina Pistor
Columbia University School of Law
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economic-legal systems, contract law, corporate law

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The Future of European Company Law

Columbia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 420
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 04 Jun 2012
Böckli Bodmer & Partners, University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law, University of Genoa - Law Department and Centre for Law and Finance, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Sorbonne Law School, Columbia University School of Law, University of Gothenburg - Department of Law, Komisja Kodyfikacyjna Prawa Cywilnego, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity of Amsterdam and Ghent University - Financial Law Institute
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company law, harmonization, company mobility, cross-border mergers, cross-border voting, group law, capital maintenance, alternative legal forms

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Incomplete Law - a Conceptual and Analytical Framework and its Application to the Evolution of Financial Market Regulation

Number of pages: 79 Posted: 09 May 2002
Katharina Pistor and Chenggang Xu
Columbia University School of Law and University of Hong Kong
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Innovation in Corporate Law

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 17 Jul 2003
Columbia University School of Law, Ernst & Young, London School of Economics - Law School and University of Michigan Law School
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On the Theoretical Foundations for Regulating Financial Markets

Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 12-304
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 20 Jul 2012
Katharina Pistor
Columbia University School of Law
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Host’s Dilemma: Rethinking EU Banking Regulation in Light of the Global Crisis

ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 286/2010, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 378
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 03 Jul 2010
Katharina Pistor
Columbia University School of Law
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EU banking regulation, financial crisis, transnational regulation, effect-based regulation, systemic risk, home-host country regulation

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Law in Finance

Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 41, No. 2, 2013, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 13-349
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 10 May 2013
Katharina Pistor
Columbia University School of Law
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Making Corporate Governance Codes More Effective: A Response to the European Commission's Action Plan of December 2012

Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 56/2014
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 12 Dec 2013
Böckli Bodmer & Partners, University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law, University of Genoa - Law Department and Centre for Law and Finance, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Sorbonne Law School, Columbia University School of Law, University of Marburg - Faculty of Law, University of Gothenburg - Department of Law, Komisja Kodyfikacyjna Prawa Cywilnego, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity of Amsterdam and Ghent University - Financial Law Institute
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Corporate Governance, Corporate Governance Codes, comply or explain, code effectiveness, disclosure, enforcement, European Commission, Action Plan

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Response to the European Commission's Report on the Application of the Takeover Bids Directive

University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 5/2014, Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 55/2014
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 02 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2014
Böckli Bodmer & Partners, University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law, University of Genoa - Law Department and Centre for Law and Finance, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Sorbonne Law School, Columbia University School of Law, University of Gothenburg - Department of Law, Komisja Kodyfikacyjna Prawa Cywilnego, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity of Amsterdam and Ghent University - Financial Law Institute
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takeover bids, European Company Law, acting in concert, mandatory bid rule, defensive measures

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Maximizing Autonomy in the Shadow of Great Powers: The Political Economy of Sovereign Wealth Funds

Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 50, No. 1, 2012, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 395
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 17 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2012
Kyle J. Hatton, Kyle J. Hatton and Katharina Pistor
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP - New York OfficeColumbia University - Law School and Columbia University School of Law
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How to Improve the Financial Architecture and Its Resilience

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 21 Jun 2014
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS), London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), Capital Fund Management, University College London, University of Oxford, University of Western Sydney - School of Economics & Finance, Columbia University School of Law, University of Kiel - Institute for World Economics (IfW), Independent, University of St. Gallen, Independent and University of the West of England (UWE)
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financial architecture, resilience, financial crisis, banking crisis, economic crisis, new economic thinking

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From Territorial to Monetary Sovereignty

Theoretical Inquiries in Law, Vol. 18, Iss. 2, pp. 491 to 517, July 2017, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 591
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 18 Sep 2018
Katharina Pistor
Columbia University School of Law
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Global Network Finance: Organizational Hedging in Times of Uncertainty

Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 339
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 15 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 12 Aug 2009
Katharina Pistor
Columbia University School of Law
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Global financial crisis, sovereign wealth funds, global finance, global governance

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Banking Reform in the Chinese Mirror

Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 354
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 13 Aug 2009
Katharina Pistor
Columbia University School of Law
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banking reform, financial crisis, sovereign wealth funds, China, emerging markets

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Trade, Law and Product Complexity

Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 88, No. 2, pp. 363-373, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 230
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 24 Apr 2003 Last Revised: 14 May 2008
Daniel Berkowitz, Johannes Moenius and Katharina Pistor
University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics, University of Redlands and Columbia University School of Law
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institutions, trade, law, rauch classification, gravity, New York Convention

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Regulatory Capabilities: A Normative Framework for Assessing the Distributional Effects of Regulation

Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 13-354
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 06 Jul 2013
Fabrizio Cafaggi and Katharina Pistor
Independent and Columbia University School of Law
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Governing Interdependent Financial Systems: Lessons from the Vienna Initiative

Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 396
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 27 Mar 2011
Katharina Pistor
Columbia University School of Law
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Into the Void; Governing Finance in Central & Eastern Europe

Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 355
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 24 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 06 Oct 2009
Katharina Pistor
Columbia University School of Law
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banking regulation, regulatory jurisdiction, global governance

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Evolution of Corporate Law and the Transplant Effect: Lessons from Six Countries

World Bank Research Observer, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 89-112, Spring 2003
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
Columbia University School of Law, Ernst & Young, London School of Economics - Law School and University of Michigan Law School

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Law as a Determinant of Equity Market Development: The Experience of Transition Economies

THE VALUE OF LAW IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES, Peter Murrell, ed., pp. 249-287, University of Michigan Press
Posted: 25 Feb 2005
Katharina Pistor
Columbia University School of Law

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stock markets, transition economies, law on the books, rule of law

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Governing Stock Markets in Transition Economies: Lessons from China

Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 262, American Review of Law and Economics, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 184-210, 2005
Posted: 01 Dec 2004
Katharina Pistor and Chenggang Xu
Columbia University School of Law and University of Hong Kong

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Investing in Insider-Dominated Firms: A Study of Russian Voucher Privatization Funds

Corporate Governance in Central Europe and Russia, Vol. 1:Banks, Funds, and Foreign Investors (Roman Frydman, Cheryl W. Gray & Andrzej Rapaczynski eds., Central European University Press 1996)
Posted: 03 Jul 1998
Roman Frydman, Katharina Pistor and Andrzej Rapaczynski
New York University (NYU) - Department of Economics, Columbia University School of Law and Columbia Law School

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Co-Determination in Germany: A Socio-Political Model with Governance Externalities

Posted: 21 Feb 1997
Katharina Pistor
Columbia University School of Law

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