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1.

The History of Corporate Governance

OXFORD HANDBOOK OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, Mike Wright, Donald Siegel, Kevin Keasey and Igor Filatotchev, eds., Oxford University Press, 2013, University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 54/2011, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 184/2012
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 22 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 20 May 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Brian R. Cheffins
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
Downloads 26,930
2.

Economic Consequences of Financial Reporting and Disclosure Regulation: A Review and Suggestions for Future Research

Number of pages: 91 Posted: 13 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 07 May 2008
Working Paper Series
Christian Leuz and Peter D. Wysocki
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Boston University Questrom School of Business
Downloads 26,294
3.

Does the Carbon Premium Reflect Risk or Outperformance?

FEB-RN Research Paper No. 03/2024, European Corporate Governance Institute – Finance Working Paper No. 940/2023, HKU Jockey Club Enterprise Sustainability Global Research Institute - Archive
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 25 Sep 2023 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2024
Working Paper Series
Yigit Atilgan, K. Ozgur Demirtas, Alex Edmans and A. Doruk Gunaydin
Sabanci University, Sabanci University Graduate School of Management, London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting and Sabanci University
Downloads 23,984
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 20,623
5.

International Corporate Governance

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 30 Jul 2002
Working Paper Series
Diane K. Denis and John J. McConnell
University of Pittsburgh - Katz School of Business and Purdue University
Downloads 20,106
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 19,788
7.

The Effects of Mandatory ESG Disclosure Around the World

Journal of Accounting Research, forthcoming, Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 21-44, European Corporate Governance Institute – Finance Working Paper No. 754/2021, HKU Jockey Club Enterprise Sustainability Global Research Institute - Archive
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 26 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 25 Oct 2024
Accepted Paper Series
Philipp Krueger, Zacharias Sautner, Dragon Yongjun Tang and Rui Zhong
University of Geneva - Geneva Finance Research Institute (GFRI), University of Zurich - Department of Finance, The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics and The University of Western Australia - UWA Business School

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Downloads 18,864
8.

Blockchain Technology and Decentralized Governance: Is the State Still Necessary?

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 02 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 13 Jun 2016
Working Paper Series
Marcella Atzori
Independent Expert
Downloads 17,948
9.

Insider Trading: An Overview

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 24 Oct 1998
Working Paper Series
Stephen M. Bainbridge
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
Downloads 17,176
10.

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 16,165
11.

The Long-Term Effects of Hedge Fund Activism

Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 802, Columbia Law Review, Vol. 115, 2015, pp. 1085-1156, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 13-66
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 07 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 02 Jul 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alon Brav and Wei Jiang
Harvard Law School, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Emory University Goizueta Business School

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Downloads 15,977
12.

Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Finance: A Review of the Literature

European Corporate Governance Institute – Finance Working Paper No. 701/2020, This paper will appear in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance.
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 24 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2020
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Hao Liang and Luc Renneboog
Singapore Management University - Lee Kong Chian School of Business and Tilburg University - Department of Finance
Downloads 14,426
13.

Fintech and Banking. Friends or Foes?

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 16 Jan 2018
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Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Giacomo Calzolari, José Manuel Mansilla-Fernandez and Alberto F. Pozzolo
University of Milan - Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods (DEMM), European University Institute - Economics Department (ECO), Public University of Navarre and Roma Tre University
Downloads 13,881
14.

Audit Committee, Board of Director Characteristics, and Earnings Management

NYU, Law and Economics Research Paper No. 06-42
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 22 Nov 2000
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April Klein
New York University (NYU)

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Downloads 13,630
15.

The Changing of the Boards: The Impact on Firm Valuation of Mandated Female Board Representation

Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2012, vol. 127(1): 137-197.
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 21 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 16 Jun 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Kenneth R. Ahern and Amy K. Dittmar
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - The Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Downloads 13,277
16.

Hedge Funds, Systemic Risk, and the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008: Written Testimony for the House Oversight Committee Hearing on Hedge Funds

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 17 Nov 2008
Working Paper Series
Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
Downloads 12,473
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 12,224
18.

The Case for Increasing Shareholder Power

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 118, No. 3, pp. 833-914, January 2005, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 500
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 17 Mar 2003 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk
Harvard Law School
Downloads 12,149
19.

IFRS Adoption and Accounting Quality: A Review

European Accounting Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 26 Aug 2007
Accepted Paper Series
Naomi S. Soderstrom and Kevin Jialin Sun
University of Melbourne and St. John's University
Downloads 11,993
20.

Executive Compensation: Where We are, and How We Got There

George Constantinides, Milton Harris, and René Stulz (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Finance. Elsevier Science North Holland (Forthcoming), Marshall School of Business Working Paper No. FBE 07.12
Number of pages: 179 Posted: 17 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 13 Aug 2012
Working Paper Series
Kevin J. Murphy
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
Downloads 11,527
21.

Firm-level Climate Change Exposure

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, European Corporate Governance Institute – Finance Working Paper No. 686/2020 , TRR 266 Accounting for Transparency Working Paper Series No. 33
Number of pages: 108 Posted: 13 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2023
Accepted Paper Series
Zacharias Sautner, Laurence van Lent, Grigory Vilkov and Ruishen Zhang
University of Zurich - Department of Finance, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and The University of Hong Kong
Downloads 10,794
22.

Corporate Governance: Effects on Firm Performance and Economic Growth

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 22 Sep 2000
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Maria Maher and Thomas Andersson
Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) - Economics Department (ECO) and Jonkoping University

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Downloads 10,696
23.

Fallacies, Irrelevant Facts, and Myths in the Discussion of Capital Regulation: Why Bank Equity is Not Socially Expensive

Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods 2013/23, Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 161, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 13-7
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 04 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 12 Jan 2016
Working Paper Series
Anat R. Admati, Peter M. DeMarzo, Martin F. Hellwig and Paul C. Pfleiderer
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods and Stanford Graduate School of Business
Downloads 10,592
24.

Deep Learning and Financial Stability

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 13 Nov 2020
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Gary Gensler and Lily Bailey
Masachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Downloads 10,136
25.

Earnings Quality: Evidence from the Field

Number of pages: 73 Posted: 10 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2014
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Ilia D. Dichev, John R. Graham, Campbell R. Harvey and Shivaram Rajgopal
Emory University - Department of Accounting, Duke University, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Accounting, Business Law & Taxation

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Downloads 10,095
26.

Earnings Management and Investor Protection: An International Comparison

MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4225-01; EFA 2002 Berlin Meetings Presented Paper
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 18 Sep 2001 Last Revised: 17 Mar 2008
Working Paper Series
Christian Leuz, Dhananjay Nanda and Peter D. Wysocki
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Miami - Department of Accounting and Boston University Questrom School of Business

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Downloads 9,857
27.

The Subprime Credit Crisis of 07

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 25 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 15 Jun 2016
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Stuart M. Turnbull, Michel Crouhy and Robert A. Jarrow
University of Houston - C.T. Bauer College of Business, Natixis and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
Downloads 9,556
28.

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 9,484
29.

Internal Audit Quality and Earnings Management

The Accounting Review, Vol. 84, No. 4, pp. 1255-1280, 2009
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 17 Jul 2006 Last Revised: 11 May 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Douglas F. Prawitt, Jason L. Smith and David A. Wood
Brigham Young University, University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Brigham Young University - School of Accountancy
Downloads 8,936
30.

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 8,922
31.

Market Reaction to the Adoption of IFRS in Europe

Accounting Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 19 May 2006 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Chris Armstrong, Mary E. Barth, Alan D. Jagolinzer and Eddie Riedl
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business, University of Cambridge Judge Business School and Boston University - Questrom School of Business

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Downloads 8,626
32.

The State of U.S. Corporate Governance: What's Right and What's Wrong?

ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 23/2003
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 08 Sep 2003
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Bengt R. Holmström and Steven N. Kaplan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

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Downloads 8,474
33.

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

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Downloads 8,471
34.

Earnings Quality, Fundamental Analysis and Valuation

Columbia Business School Research Paper
Number of pages: 725 Posted: 01 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 22 Nov 2024
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Doron Nissim
Columbia University - Columbia Business School
Downloads 8,312
35.

Reading About the Financial Crisis: A 21-Book Review

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 27 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2012
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Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
Downloads 8,220
36.

Social Media as a Bank Run Catalyst

Université Paris-Dauphine Research Paper No. 4422754
Number of pages: 90 Posted: 24 Apr 2023 Last Revised: 17 Sep 2024
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J. Anthony Cookson, Corbin Fox, Javier Gil-Bazo, Juan Felipe Imbet and Christoph Schiller
University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business, Clemson University - Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Université Paris Dauphine - Department of Finance and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance
Downloads 8,210
37.

Corporate Governance, Board Diversity, and Firm Performance

Oklahoma State University Working Paper
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 26 Mar 2002
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David Carter, Betty J. Simkins and W. Gary Simpson
Oklahoma State University - Stillwater - Department of Finance, Oklahoma State University - Stillwater - Department of Finance and Oklahoma State University - Stillwater - Department of Finance
Downloads 7,959
38.

Risk Management: History, Definition and Critique

Risk Management and Insurance Review 16, 2, 147-166, 2013
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 11 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 18 Jan 2023
Accepted Paper Series
Georges Dionne
HEC Montreal - Department of Finance
Downloads 7,740
39.

Real and Accrual-Based Earnings Management in the Pre- and Post-Sarbanes Oxley Periods

AAA 2006 Financial Accounting and Reporting Section (FARS) Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 28 Sep 2005
Working Paper Series
Daniel A. Cohen, Aiyesha Dey and Thomas Z. Lys
Vanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management, Harvard Business School and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

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Downloads 7,597
40.

Audit Committee Quality, Auditor Independence, and Internal Control Weaknesses

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 22 Aug 2006
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Yan Zhang, Jian Zhou and Nan Zhou
State University of New York at Binghamton - School of Management, University of Hawaii at Manoa and University of Cincinnati - Lindner College of Business

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Downloads 7,420
41.

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 7,389
42.

The Credit Rating Industry: Competition and Regulation

Number of pages: 176 Posted: 14 Jun 2007
Working Paper Series
Fabian Dittrich
University of Cologne - Department of Economics
Downloads 7,247
43.

Modern Company and Capital Market Problems: Improving European Corporate Governance after Enron

AFTER ENRON, IMPROVING CORPORATE LAW AND MODERNISING SECURITIES REGULATION IN EUROPE AND THE U.S., pp. 445-496, J. Armour, J. A. McCahery, eds., Oxford (Hart), 2006, ECGI Law Working Paper No. 05/2002, ECGI Finance Working Paper
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 11 Dec 2002 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2009
Working Paper Series
Klaus J. Hopt
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
Downloads 7,223
44.

Mandatory CSR and Sustainability Reporting: Economic Analysis and Literature Review

European Corporate Governance Institute - Finance Working Paper No. 623/2019
Number of pages: 121 Posted: 31 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 20 May 2021
Working Paper Series
Hans Bonde Christensen, Luzi Hail and Christian Leuz
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

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Downloads 6,899
45.

The Rise of Independent Directors in the United States, 1950-2005: Of Shareholder Value and Stock Market Prices

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 74/2006, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 301, Stanford Law Review, Vol. 59, p. 1465, 2007
Number of pages: 111 Posted: 04 Sep 2006 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2008
Working Paper Series
Jeffrey N. Gordon
Columbia Law School

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Downloads 6,602
46.

The Costs and Benefits of Financial Market Regulation

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 21/2004
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 29 Apr 2004
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Luigi Zingales
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 6,558
47.

Accruals Quality and Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

The Accounting Review, Vol. 82, pp. 1141-1170, October 2007
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 30 Aug 2005 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2010
Working Paper Series
Jeffrey T. Doyle, Weili Ge and Sarah E. McVay
Utah State University, University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business and University of Washington

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Downloads 6,478
48.

The AIG Bailout

Washington and Lee Law Review, Vol. 66, p. 943, 2009
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 19 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2015
Accepted Paper Series
William K. Sjostrom
University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law
Downloads 6,461
49.

The Takeover Directive as a Protectionist Tool?

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 141/2010
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 01 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 15 Jun 2010
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Paul L. Davies, Edmund Schuster and Emilie van de Walle de Ghelcke
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, London School of Economics - Law School and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Downloads 6,444
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Corporate Governance Reforms in Continental Europe

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 117-140, Winter 2007
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 16 Mar 2007
Accepted Paper Series
Luca Enriques and Paolo F. Volpin
Bocconi University - Bocconi Law Department and Drexel University - Bennett S. LeBow College of Business
Downloads 6,374