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Eric L. Talley

Columbia University - School of Law

Isidor & Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law

435 West 116th Street

New York, NY 10025

United States

http://www.erictalley.com

  • Columbia University - School of Law

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1.

Going-Private Decisions and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: A Cross-Country Analysis

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Going-Private Decisions and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: A Cross-Country Analysis

USC CLEO Research Paper No. C06-5, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 06-10, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 901769
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 12 May 2006 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2015
Ehud Kamar, Pinar Karaca-Mandic and Eric L. Talley
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law, RAND Corporation and Columbia University - School of Law
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Citation 16

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Sarbanes-Oxley, Mergers, Going Private, Law and Finance, Securities Markets

Going-Private Decisions and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: A Cross-Country Analysis

The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, Vol. 25, Issue 1, pp. 107-133, 2009
Posted: 13 Apr 2009
Ehud Kamar, Pinar Karaca-Mandic and Eric L. Talley
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law, RAND Corporation and Columbia University - School of Law

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Sarbanes-Oxley's Effects on Small Firms: What is the Evidence?

USC CLEO Research Paper No. C07-9, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 588, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 07-8
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 20 Jun 2007
Ehud Kamar, Pinar Karaca-Mandic and Eric L. Talley
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law, RAND Corporation and Columbia University - School of Law
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Citation 11

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Corporate Governance, Executive Compensation and Securities Litigation

USC Law School, Olin Research Paper No. 04-7; and USC CLEO Research Paper No. C04-4
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 29 Apr 2004
Eric L. Talley and Gudrun Johnsen
Columbia University - School of Law and University of Iceland - Faculty of Business Administration
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A Theory of Legal Presumptions

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Citation 41

A Theory of Legal Presumptions

USC Law School, Olin Working Paper No. 99-8
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 04 May 1999
Antonio E. Bernardo, Eric L. Talley and Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Finance Area, Columbia University - School of Law and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Citation 41

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A Theory of Legal Presumptions

Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Vol. 16, No. 1, Spring 2000
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 11 Jul 2000
Antonio E. Bernardo, Eric L. Talley and Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Finance Area, Columbia University - School of Law and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Citation 41

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Experimental Law and Economics

EXPERIMENTAL LAW AND ECONOMICS, Jennifer Arlen, Eric Talley, eds., Edward Elgar, 2008, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 08-30
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 16 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 21 Sep 2008
Jennifer Arlen and Eric L. Talley
New York University School of Law and Columbia University - School of Law
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Endowment Effects Within Corporate Agency Relationships

USC CLEO Research Paper No. C01-1; USC Law and Economics Research Paper No. 01-8; Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 261, Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 31, p. 1, 2002
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 16 Jul 2001
Jennifer Arlen, Matthew L. Spitzer and Eric L. Talley
New York University School of Law, Northwestern University School of Law and Columbia University - School of Law
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Citation 23

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Corporate Inversions and the Unbundling of Regulatory Competition

101 Va. L. Rev. 1649-1751 (2015), UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2511723, USC CLASS Research Paper No. CLASS14-32, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-475
Number of pages: 104 Posted: 20 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 16 Feb 2016
Eric L. Talley
Columbia University - School of Law
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Tax Inversions, Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Governance, Regulatory Competition

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A Defense of Shareholder Favoritism

USC Law and Economics Research Paper No. 01-12; and USC CLEO Research Paper No. C01-11; and UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 62
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 10 Jul 2001
Stephen J. Choi and Eric L. Talley
New York University School of Law and Columbia University - School of Law
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On Public Versus Private Provision of Corporate Law

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On Public Versus Private Provision of Corporate Law

USC Law and Economics Research Paper No. 04-18, USC CLEO Research Paper No. C04-13
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 24 Aug 2004 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2013
Gillian K. Hadfield and Eric L. Talley
USC Law School and Department of Economics and Columbia University - School of Law
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Citation 12

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On Public Versus Private Provision of Corporate Law

The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 414-441, 2006
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 29 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 18 Mar 2011
Gillian K. Hadfield and Eric L. Talley
USC Law School and Department of Economics and Columbia University - School of Law
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Citation 12

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On Public versus Private Provision of Corporate Law

Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Vol. 22, No. 2, Fall 2006
Posted: 23 Feb 2006
Gillian K. Hadfield and Eric L. Talley
USC Law School and Department of Economics and Columbia University - School of Law

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Judicial Auditing

USC CLEO Research Paper No. 98-22
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 01 Dec 1998
Matthew L. Spitzer and Eric L. Talley
Northwestern University School of Law and Columbia University - School of Law
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Unregulable Defenses and the Perils of Shareholder Choice

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Unregulable Defenses and the Perils of Shareholder Choice

USC Law, Olin Research Paper 03-7; USC CLEO Research Paper C03-7; NYU, Ctr for Law & Bus Research Paper 03-05; NYU Public Law Research Paper 60
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 25 Apr 2003
Jennifer Arlen and Eric L. Talley
New York University School of Law and Columbia University - School of Law
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Unregulable Defenses and the Perils of Shareholder Choice

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 152, p. 577, 2003, NYU, Ctr for Law & Bus Research Paper No. 03-05; NYU Public Law Research Paper No. 60, USC CLEO Research Paper No. C03-7; USC Law, Olin Research Paper No. 03-7
Posted: 29 May 2008
Jennifer Arlen and Eric L. Talley
New York University School of Law and Columbia University - School of Law

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Trade Secrets and Mutual Investments

USC Law School, Olin Research Paper No. 00-15; Georgetown Law and Economics Research Paper No. 246406
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 23 Oct 2000
Gillian L. L. Lester and Eric L. Talley
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and Columbia University - School of Law
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Playing Favorites with Shareholders

USC Law School, Olin Research Paper No. 01-16; UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 68
Number of pages: 106 Posted: 14 Oct 2001
Stephen J. Choi and Eric L. Talley
New York University School of Law and Columbia University - School of Law
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On Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and Contractual Conditions

Delaware Journal of Corporate Law (DJCL), Vol. 34, No. 3, 2009, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 1503088
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 09 Nov 2009
Eric L. Talley
Columbia University - School of Law
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Citation 2

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Delaware, Journal, Corporate, Law, DJCL, Chancery, Hexion, Huntsman, ambiguity, aversion, risk, contractual, MAC, MAE

15.

Corporate Form and Social Entrepreneurship: A Status Report from California (and Beyond)

Association for Corporate Counsel 2012 Annual Meeting, Orlando FL, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2144567
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 11 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 05 Nov 2012
Eric L. Talley
Columbia University - School of Law
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social entrepreneurship, corporate form, corporate social responsibility, shareholder primacy

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Taking the 'I' Out of 'Team': Intra-Firm Monitoring and the Content of Fiduciary Duties

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Taking the 'I' Out of 'Team': Intra-Firm Monitoring and the Content of Fiduciary Duties

USC Law School, Olin Working Paper No. 99-7
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 04 May 1999
Eric L. Talley
Columbia University - School of Law
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Citation 10

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Taking the 'I' Out of 'Team': Intra-Firm Monitoring and the Content of Fiduciary Duties

Journal of Corporation Law 1999
Posted: 08 Apr 1999
Eric L. Talley
Columbia University - School of Law

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Private Information, Self-Serving Biases, and Optimal Settlement Mechanisms: Theory and Evidence

USC Law School, Olin Research Paper No. 03-8; and USC CLEO Research Paper No. C03-8
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 25 Apr 2003
Seth A. Seabury and Eric L. Talley
University of Southern California - Keck School of Medicine and Columbia University - School of Law
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A Model of Optimal Corporate Bailouts

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 05 May 2011 Last Revised: 05 May 2012
Antonio E. Bernardo, Eric L. Talley and Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Finance Area, Columbia University - School of Law and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Government Bailout, Moral Hazard, GM, Chrysler, TARP

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Uncorporated Professionals

USC Law and Economics Research Paper No. 04-22; and USC CLEO Research Paper No. C04-18
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 08 Sep 2004
John Romley and Eric L. Talley
Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California and Columbia University - School of Law
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Law, Economics, and the Burden(s) of Proof

Research Handbook on the Economics of Torts, J. Arlen, ed., Forthcoming , UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2170469
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 04 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 16 Feb 2016
Eric L. Talley
Columbia University - School of Law
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Citation 1

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Burden of Proof, Presumptions, Evidence, Litigation

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Precedential Cascades: A Critical Appraisal

USC Law School, Olin Working Paper No. 99-6
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 13 Apr 1999
Eric L. Talley
Columbia University - School of Law
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The Measure of a MAC: A Quasi-Experimental Protocol for Tokenizing Force Majeure Clauses in M&A Agreements

UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 1872568
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 26 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 16 Feb 2016
Eric L. Talley and Drew O'Kane
Columbia University - School of Law and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
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Mergers and Acquisitions, Machine Learning, Latent Semantic Analysis

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Optimal Liability for Terrorism

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Optimal Liability for Terrorism

USC CLEO Research Paper No. C05-14
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 31 Oct 2005
Darius N. Lakdawalla and Eric L. Talley
University of Southern California - Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics and Columbia University - School of Law
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Optimal Liability for Terrorism

NBER Working Paper No. w12578
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 17 Oct 2006
Darius N. Lakdawalla and Eric L. Talley
University of Southern California - Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics and Columbia University - School of Law
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Market Design with Endogenous Preferences

USC Law School, Olin Research Paper No. 04-6; and USC CLEO Research Paper No. C04-3
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 29 Apr 2004
Aviad Heifetz, Ella Segev and Eric L. Talley
Open University of Israel - Department of Economics and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Department of IE&M and Columbia University - School of Law
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Market Design, Endogenous Preferences

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A Note on Presumptions with Sequential Litigation

USC Law School, Olin Working Paper No. 99-9
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 18 Jun 1999
Antonio E. Bernardo and Eric L. Talley
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Finance Area and Columbia University - School of Law
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Left, Right, and Center: Strategic Information Acquisition and Diversity in Judicial Panels

UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 1832765
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 09 May 2011 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2011
Matthew L. Spitzer and Eric L. Talley
Northwestern University School of Law and Columbia University - School of Law
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Citation 1

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judicial behavior, panel effects

27.

On Experimentation and Real Options in Financial Regulation

Journal of Legal Studies, Forthcoming, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2417968, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 14-20
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 31 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2014
Matthew L. Spitzer and Eric L. Talley
Northwestern University School of Law and Columbia University - School of Law
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Regulation, Real Options, Experimentation

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Comment on the Definition of ‘Eligible Organization’ for Purposes of Coverage of Certain Preventive Services under the Affordable Care Act

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 12 Oct 2014
Robert P. Bartlett III, Richard M. Buxbaum, Stavros Gadinis, Justin McCrary, Eric L. Talley and Steven Davidoff Solomon
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University - School of Law and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
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Hobby Lobby, veil piercing, corporations, Affordable Care Act, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, eligible organization

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Designing Corporate Bailouts

Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 59, No. 1, 2016
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 13 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2017
Antonio E. Bernardo, Eric L. Talley and Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Finance Area, Columbia University - School of Law and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Government Bailout, Moral Hazard, TARP, General Motors, Chrysler

30.

Law and Corporate Governance

Forthcoming, Handbook of Corporate Governance (Hermalin & Weisbach, eds, 2018), UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 28 Jul 2017
Robert P. Bartlett III and Eric L. Talley
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and Columbia University - School of Law
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corporate governance, corporate law, fiduciary duties, shareholder activism

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Patently Risky: Framing, Innovation and Entrepreneurial Preferences

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 29 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 23 Jul 2017
Elizabeth Hoffman, David L. Schwartz, Matthew L. Spitzer and Eric L. Talley
Iowa State University, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, Northwestern University School of Law and Columbia University - School of Law
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Patent, Intellectual Property, Experiment, Risk Preferences

32.

Appraising the 'Merger Price' Appraisal Rule

Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2017-01
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 22 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2017
Albert H. Choi and Eric L. Talley
University of Virginia School of Law and Columbia University - School of Law
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Mergers and Acquisitions, Appraisal, Fair Value, Merger Price Appraisal

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A Machine Learning Classifier for Corporate Opportunity Waivers

Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 553
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 09 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2016
Gabriel V. Rauterberg and Eric L. Talley
University of Michigan Law School and Columbia University - School of Law
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Machine Learning, Big Data, Natural Language Processing, Corporate Opportunity Waivers, Fiduciary Duties, Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Corporate Law

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The Berkeley Transactional Practice Project Competencies / Skills Survey (Presentation Slides)

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 24 Sep 2016
Eric L. Talley
Columbia University - School of Law
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Transactions, Business Law, Skills, Competencies

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Contracting Out of the Fiduciary Duty of Loyalty: An Empirical Analysis of Corporate Opportunity Waivers

Columbia Law Review, Forthcoming, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 549, U of Michigan Law & Econ Research Paper No. 16-023
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 17 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 25 May 2017
Gabriel V. Rauterberg and Eric L. Talley
University of Michigan Law School and Columbia University - School of Law
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Fiduciary Duties, Corporate Opportunities, Duty of Loyalty, Corporate Governance

36.

Short-Termism and Long-Termism

Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2731814, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-503, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 526
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 14 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 18 Mar 2016
Michal Barzuza and Eric L. Talley
University of Virginia School of Law and Columbia University - School of Law
Downloads 0 (48,198)

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Shareholder Activism, Hedge Funds, Managerial Overconfidence, Present Bias, Limits to Arbitrage

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Going-Private Decisions and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: A Cross-Country Analysis

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership Historical Research Reference in Entrepreneurship
Posted: 01 Dec 2009
Ehud Kamara, Pinar Karaca-Mandic and Eric L. Talley
affiliation not provided to SSRN, RAND Corporation and Columbia University - School of Law

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Market capitalization, VentureXpert dataset, Morgan Stanley Company International, Inc., Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, Valuation, Public firms, Financial markets, Private firms, Private offerings, Firm ownership, Firm size

38.

Disclosure Norms

Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 149, 2001
Posted: 15 May 2001
Eric L. Talley
Columbia University - School of Law

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Turning Servile Opportunities to Gold: A Strategic Analysis of the Corporate Opportunities Doctrine

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 108, Pp. 277-375, 1998
Posted: 19 Feb 1999
Eric L. Talley
Columbia University - School of Law

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A Model of Hierarchical Judicial Auditing

97-25
Posted: 08 Feb 1998
Eric L. Talley
Columbia University - School of Law

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Differentiated Projects, Optimal Contracting, and the Corporate Opportunities Doctrine

Working Paper No. 97-24
Posted: 08 Feb 1998
Eric L. Talley
Columbia University - School of Law

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Triumphs of Commission

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 19 May 2017
Eric L. Talley
Columbia University - School of Law
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Commencement, Graduation

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