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1.

Agency Cost of Free Cash Flow, Corporate Finance, and Takeovers

American Economic Review, Vol. 76, No. 2, May 1986
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 25 Mar 1999
Accepted Paper Series
Michael C. Jensen (Deceased)
Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
Downloads 55,895
2.

Corporate Governance and Firm Performance

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 27 Sep 2004
Working Paper Series
Lawrence D. Brown and Marcus L. Caylor
Temple University - Department of Accounting and Kennesaw State University
Downloads 38,743
3.

Strength in Numbers: How Does Data-Driven Decisionmaking Affect Firm Performance?

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 24 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 12 Dec 2011
Working Paper Series
Erik Brynjolfsson, Lorin M. Hitt and Heekyung Hellen Kim
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department and MIT - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 37,157
4.

What is Corporate Law?

Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 300
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 27 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman
Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 20,026
5.

What Counts and What Gets Counted

Number of pages: 216 Posted: 22 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2018
Working Paper Series
Robert J. Bloomfield
Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
Downloads 19,534
6.

The Illusory Promise of Stakeholder Governance

Cornell Law Review, Volume 106, 2020, pp. 91-178, Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No.1052, Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance Working Paper 2020-1
Number of pages: 81 Posted: 27 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2023
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Roberto Tallarita
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 18,964
7.

Liberal Radicalism: A Flexible Design For Philanthropic Matching Funds

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 18 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 31 Dec 2018
Working Paper Series
Vitalik Buterin, Zoë Hitzig and E. Glen Weyl
Ethereum Foundation, Harvard University - Department of Economics and Plural Technology Collaboratory, Microsoft Research Special Projects
Downloads 17,049
8.

Economics of Blockchain

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 09 Mar 2016
Working Paper Series
Sinclair Davidson, Primavera De Filippi and Jason Potts
RMIT University, Université Paris II - Panthéon-Assas and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technolog (RMIT University)
Downloads 16,651
9.

The Essential Elements of Corporate Law

Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20/2009, Yale Law, Economics & Public Policy Research Paper No. 387, Harvard Law and Economics Research Paper No. 643, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 09-39, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 134/2009
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 21 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2018
Accepted Paper Series
John Armour, Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 15,924
10.

The Modern Industrial Revolution, Exit, and the Failure of Internal Control Systems

Michael C. Jensen, A THEORY OF THE FIRM: GOVERNANCE, RESIDUAL CLAIMS AND ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS, Harvard University Press, December 2000; Journal of Finance, July 1993
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 09 May 1999 Last Revised: 10 Jun 2024
Accepted Paper Series
Michael C. Jensen (Deceased)
Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
Downloads 14,999
11.

Comparing the Decision Styles of American, Chinese and Japanese Business Leaders

Best Paper Proceedings of Academy of Management Meetings, Washington, DC, August 2001
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 19 Dec 2006
Accepted Paper Series
Maris G. Martinsons
City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Management Sciences
Downloads 14,240
12.

The Loser's Curse: Decision Making & Market Efficiency in the National Football League Draft

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 05 Apr 2005 Last Revised: 05 Sep 2012
Working Paper Series
Cade Massey and Richard H. Thaler
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 13,643
13.

The Making and Meaning of ESG

U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 22-23, European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 659/2022, Harvard Business Law Review, Vol. 14, p. 403, 2024
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 15 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2024
Accepted Paper Series
Elizabeth Pollman
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School; Co-Director, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School - Institute for Law and Economics; European Corporate Governance Institute
Downloads 13,192
14.

Libertarian Paternalism is Not an Oxymoron

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 09 May 2003
Accepted Paper Series
Cass R. Sunstein and Richard H. Thaler
Harvard Law School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 12,987
15.

Analysis of the Dot-Com Bubble of the 1990s

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 29 Jun 2008
Working Paper Series
John J. Morris and Pervaiz Alam
Kansas State University and Kent State University
Downloads 12,153
16.

Corporate Social Responsibility - an Economic and Financial Framework

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 05 Jan 2005
Working Paper Series
Geoffrey M. Heal
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
Downloads 11,995
17.

Pay Without Performance: Overview of the Issues

Journal of Corporation Law, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 647-673, 2005, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 8-22, 2005, Academy of Management Perspectives, pp. 5-24, February 2006, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 528
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 19 Jul 2005 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 11,963
18.

The Free Cash Flow Theory of Takeovers: A Financial Perspective on Mergers and Acquisitions and the Economy

"The Merger Boom", Proceedings of a Conference sponsored by Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, pp. 102-143, October 1987
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 08 Feb 2003
Accepted Paper Series
Michael C. Jensen (Deceased)
Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
Downloads 11,706
19.

The Antitrust Case Against Facebook

Berkeley Business Law Journal Vol. 16, Issue 1, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 07 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 19 Jan 2021
Accepted Paper Series
Dina Srinivasan
Thurman Arnold Project
Downloads 11,315
20.

Corporate Green Bonds

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 27 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Caroline Flammer
Columbia University
Downloads 11,081
21.

Origin of the Theory of Agency: An Account By One of the Theory's Originators

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 10 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2019
Working Paper Series
Barry M. Mitnick
University of Pittsburgh
Downloads 10,751
22.

Corporate Culture: Evidence from the Field

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming, 27th Annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting Paper, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 16-49, Duke I&E Research Paper No. 2016-33
Number of pages: 133 Posted: 09 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2022
Accepted Paper Series
John R. Graham, Jillian Grennan, Campbell R. Harvey and Shivaram Rajgopal
Duke University, Emory University, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Accounting, Business Law & Taxation

Multiple version iconThere are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 10,445
23.

Literature Review - Knowledge Management Research at the Organizational Level

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 05 Jun 2007
Working Paper Series
David A. Bray
Institute for Defense Analyses
Downloads 10,422
24.

Agency Costs of Overvalued Equity

ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 39/2004, Harvard Business School NOM Working Paper No. 04-26, Financial Management, Vol. 34, No. 1, Spring 2005
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 29 Mar 2004 Last Revised: 06 May 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Michael C. Jensen (Deceased)
Harvard University - Business School (HBS)

Multiple version iconThere are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 10,259
25.

The Economics of Privacy

Journal of Economic Literature, 54(2): 442-492 (2016) http://doi.org/10.1257/jel.54.2.442, Sloan Foundation Economics Research Paper No. 2580411
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 07 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2022
Accepted Paper Series
Alessandro Acquisti, Curtis R. Taylor and Liad Wagman
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Duke University - Department of Economics and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) - Lally School of Management & Technology
Downloads 10,239
26.

Divisional Performance Measurement

Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 29 Nov 1998 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Michael C. Jensen (Deceased) and William H. Meckling
Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and Simon School, University of Rochester (Deceased)
Downloads 10,019
27.

Should We Worry About Filter Bubbles?

Internet Policy Review. Journal on Internet Regulation, Volume 5, Issue 1, 2016
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 04 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius, Damian Trilling, Judith Moeller, Balázs Bodó, Claes H. de Vreese and Natali Helberger
iHub, Radboud University, Nijmegen, University of Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam - Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam and University of Amsterdam - Institute for Information Law (IViR)
Downloads 9,911
28.

The Global Automotive Industry Value Chain: What Prospects for Upgrading by Developing Countries

UNIDO Sectorial Studies Series Working Paper
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 02 Sep 2003
Working Paper Series
John Humphrey and Olga Memedovic
University of Sussex - Institute of Development Studies and United Nations Industrial Development Organisation - Strategic Research and Economics
Downloads 9,641
29.

Work from Home & Productivity: Evidence from Personnel & Analytics Data on IT Professionals

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2021-56
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 11 May 2021 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2024
Working Paper Series
Michael Gibbs, Friederike Mengel and Christoph Siemroth
University of Chicago Booth School of Business, University of Essex - Department of Economics and University of Essex - Department of Economics

Multiple version iconThere are 4 versions of this paper

Downloads 9,553
30.

Agency Problems, Legal Strategies, and Enforcement

Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 21/2009, Yale Law, Economics & Public Policy Research Paper No. 388, Harvard Law and Economics Research Paper Series No. 644 , European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 135/2009
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 21 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2018
Accepted Paper Series
John Armour, Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 9,207
31.

Is Disruptive Blockchain Technology the Future of Financial Services?

69 The Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report 232 (2016)
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 31 May 2016 Last Revised: 24 Dec 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Lawrence J. Trautman
Prairie View A&M University - College of Business
Downloads 9,058
32.

Who Wins in a Dynamic World: Theory of Constraints Vs. Activity-Based Costing?

North American Assoc. for Computational Social and Organizational Science (NAACSOS) Conference, June 2007
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 09 Feb 2007 Last Revised: 21 Jan 2008
Working Paper Series
Robin Cooper, David A. Bray and Michael I. Parzen
Emory University - Goizueta Business School, Institute for Defense Analyses and Emory University - Goizueta Business School
Downloads 9,045
33.

Corporate Investment and Stock Market Listing: A Puzzle?

Review of Financial Studies 28, no. 2 (February 2015): 342-390
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 10 May 2010 Last Revised: 07 Feb 2015
Accepted Paper Series
John Asker, Joan Farre-Mensa, Alexander Ljungqvist and Alexander Ljungqvist
UCLA, University of Illinois at Chicago - Department of Finance and Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)Swedish House of Finance

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Downloads 8,966
34.

Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives

Journal of Political Economy, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 511/2017
Number of pages: 113 Posted: 03 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 19 Aug 2022
Accepted Paper Series
Miguel Anton, Florian Ederer, Mireia Gine, Martin C. Schmalz and Martin C. Schmalz
University of Navarra, IESE Business School, Boston University - Markets, Public Policy, and Law, IESE Business School, University of Navarra and CEPRUniversity of Oxford - Finance

Multiple version iconThere are 4 versions of this paper

Downloads 8,583
35.

Pay Without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation

Harvard University Press, 2004
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 30 Apr 2004 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 8,421
36.

Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 17, pp. 71-92, 2003, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 421
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 06 Jan 2003 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School

Multiple version iconThere are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 8,406
37.

Putting Integrity into Finance: A Purely Positive Approach

Harvard Business School NOM Unit Working Paper No. 12-074, Barbados Group Working Paper No. 12-01, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) – Finance Working Paper No. 417/2014
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 05 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 29 Nov 2015
Working Paper Series
Werner Erhard and Michael C. Jensen (Deceased)
Independent and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)

Multiple version iconThere are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 8,171
38.

Corporate Governance and Firm Valuation

Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Vol. 25, No. 4, 2006
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 07 Jul 2005 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2014
Working Paper Series
Lawrence D. Brown and Marcus L. Caylor
Temple University - Department of Accounting and Kennesaw State University
Downloads 7,884
39.

Artificial Intelligence, Firm Growth, and Product Innovation

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 27 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 12 Dec 2023
Accepted Paper Series
Tania Babina, Anastassia Fedyk, Alex Xi He and James Hodson
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance, University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business, University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business and AI for Good
Downloads 7,669
40.

A Short Treatise on Fantasy Sports and the Law: How America Regulates its New National Pastime

Harvard Journal of Sports & Entertainment Law, Vol. 3, January 2012
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 09 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 05 Apr 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Marc Edelman
City University of New York - Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business
Downloads 7,572
41.

COVID-19 Impact on Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprises under the Lockdown: Evidence from a Rapid Survey in the Philippines

ADBI Working Paper 1216
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 18 Mar 2021
Working Paper Series
Shigehiro Shinozaki and Lakshman Nagraj Rao
Asian Development Bank Institute and Asian Development Bank
Downloads 7,553
42.

Secret Liens and the Financial Crisis of 2008

American Bankruptcy Law Journal, Vol. 83, p. 253, 2009
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 05 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 16 Oct 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Michael Simkovic
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Downloads 7,368
43.

Contracting Theory and Accounting

Number of pages: 135 Posted: 17 Jan 2001
Working Paper Series
Richard A. Lambert
University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department

Multiple version iconThere are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 7,290
44.

Platform Strategy

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management (2014)
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 22 May 2014 Last Revised: 08 May 2019
Working Paper Series
Geoffrey Parker and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Dartmouth College and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
Downloads 7,248
45.

The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation

MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 13-09
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 14 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 18 Apr 2013
Working Paper Series
Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster and Cynthia Kinnan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Department of Economics and Northwestern University - Department of Economics

Multiple version iconThere are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 6,994
46.

The Law, Culture, and Economics of Fashion

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 61, March 2009, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 344, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 627, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 09-63
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 08 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 30 Jun 2013
Accepted Paper Series
C. Scott Hemphill and Jeannie Suk Gersen
New York University School of Law and Harvard Law School
Downloads 6,988
47.

How Copyright Keeps Works Disappeared

Illinois Program in Law, Behavior and Social Science Paper No. LBSS14-07, Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 13-54
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 06 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2014
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Paul J. Heald
University of Illinois College of Law
Downloads 6,927
48.

Do Agents Game Their Agents' Behavior? Evidence from Sales Managers

Benson, Alan. "Do Agents Game Their Agents' Behavior? Evidence from Sales manages." Journal of Labor Economics, 33(4): 863-90.
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 20 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 11 Jan 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Alan Benson
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management
Downloads 6,846
49.

Does Corporate Social Responsibility Lead to Superior Financial Performance? A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 14 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2013
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Caroline Flammer
Columbia University
Downloads 6,417
50.

Relational Contracts and the Theory of the Firm

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 11 May 1997
Working Paper Series
George P. Baker, Robert S. Gibbons and Kevin J. Murphy
HBS Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
Downloads 6,303