1.
A Sober Look at SPACs
Yale Journal on Regulation, 2022, Volume 39, Issue 1., Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 559, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 20-48, European Corporate Governance Institute – Finance Working Paper No. 746/2021
Number of pages: 96
Posted: 16 Nov 2020
Last Revised: 25 Jan 2022
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford Law School, New York University School of Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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42,344
2.
What Matters in Corporate Governance?
Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 783-827, February 2009, Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 491 (2004)
Number of pages: 61
Posted: 21 Sep 2004
Last Revised: 17 Apr 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
There are 2 versions of this paper
What Matters in Corporate Governance?
Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 783-827, February 2009, Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 491 (2004)
Number of pages: 61
Posted: 21 Sep 2004
Last Revised: 17 Apr 2009
Downloads
37,392
What Matters in Corporate Governance?
The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 22, Issue 2, pp. 783-827, 2009
Posted: 25 Jan 2009
Downloads
37,392
3.
Remuneration: Where We've Been, How We Got to Here, What are the Problems, and How to Fix Them
Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 04-28; ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 44/2004
Number of pages: 116
Posted: 05 Jul 2004
Working Paper Series
Harvard Business School, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Ohio State University (OSU) - Fisher College of Business
Downloads
29,429
4.
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
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Boston University Questrom School of Business
Downloads
25,319
5.
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
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
Downloads
24,132
6.
Board Models in Europe - Recent Developments of Internal Corporate Governance Structures in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 18/2004, European Company and Financial Law Review, pp. 135-168, 2004, Company & Securities Law Review, Vol. 1, pp. 217-245, 2005, VOC 1602-2004: 400 YEARS OF COMPANY LAW, Ella Gepken-Jager, Gerard van Solinge, Levinus Timmerman, eds., Deventer (Kluwer), 2005
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 20 Jan 2004
Accepted Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law and University of Bremen
Downloads
20,411
7.
International Corporate Governance
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 30 Jul 2002
Working Paper Series
University of Pittsburgh - Katz School of Business and Purdue University
Downloads
19,729
8.
Corporate Governance and Earnings Management
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 29 Jun 2001
Working Paper Series
University of Sfax, Université Laval - École de comptabilité and Free University of Bozen-Bolzano - Faculty of Economics and Management
Downloads
18,772
9.
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
Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
18,379
10.
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
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
16,038
11.
Insider Trading: An Overview
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 24 Oct 1998
Working Paper Series
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
Downloads
15,707
12.
The End of History for Corporate Law
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 10 Mar 2000
Working Paper Series
Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
15,672
13.
The Crisis of Fair Value Accounting: Making Sense of the Recent Debate
Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 33, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Vol. 34, 2009
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 21 Apr 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Vienna University of Economics and Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads
15,599
14.
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
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
15,092
15.
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
Harvard Law School, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Emory University Goizueta Business School
There are 2 versions of this paper
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
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14,822
The Long-Term Effects of Hedge Fund Activism
NBER Working Paper No. w21227
Number of pages: 85
Posted: 08 Jun 2015
Last Revised: 24 Jul 2022
Downloads
252
Downloads
14,822
16.
Global Accounting Convergence and the Potential Adoption of IFRS by the United States: An Analysis of Economic and Policy Factors
Number of pages: 104
Posted: 11 Mar 2009
Working Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Boston University Questrom School of Business
There are 2 versions of this paper
Global Accounting Convergence and the Potential Adoption of IFRS by the United States: An Analysis of Economic and Policy Factors
Number of pages: 104
Posted: 11 Mar 2009
Downloads
14,567
Global Accounting Convergence and the Potential Adoption of IFRS by the U.S. (Part I): Conceptual Underpinnings and Economic Analysis
Accounting Horizons, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 355-394, 2010
Posted: 10 Sep 2010
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14,567
17.
Mandatory IFRS Reporting Around the World: Early Evidence on the Economic Consequences
ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 198/2008, Chicago GSB Research Paper No. 12
Number of pages: 74
Posted: 25 Oct 2007
Last Revised: 19 Jan 2023
Working Paper Series
University of Mannheim, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
There are 2 versions of this paper
Mandatory IFRS Reporting Around the World: Early Evidence on the Economic Consequences
ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 198/2008, Chicago GSB Research Paper No. 12
Number of pages: 74
Posted: 25 Oct 2007
Last Revised: 19 Jan 2023
Downloads
13,702
Mandatory IFRS Reporting Around the World: Early Evidence on the Economic Consequences
Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 46, No. 5, pp. 1085-1142, 2008
Posted: 08 Sep 2008
Last Revised: 20 Jan 2023
Downloads
13,702
18.
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
Working Paper Series
New York University (NYU) - Department of Accounting
There are 3 versions of this paper
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
Downloads
13,227
Audit Committee, Board of Director Characteristics, and Earnings Management
NYU Working Paper No. 2451/27450
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 08 Oct 2008
Downloads
1,073
Audit Committee, Board of Director Characteristics, and Earnings Management
Journal of Accounting and Economics, Vol. 33, No. 3, August 2002, pp. 375-400
Posted: 26 Aug 2002
Downloads
13,227
19.
Backdating
Business Lawyer, 2008
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 26 Jul 2021
Accepted Paper Series
Loyola University Chicago School of Law and Harrison & Held, LLP (deceased)
Downloads
12,481
20.
Shareholder Activism and Corporate Governance in the United States
As published in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law, vol. 3, pp. 459-465, 1998
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 05 Dec 1997
Accepted Paper Series
Downloads
12,180
21.
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
Harvard Law School
Downloads
11,550
22.
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
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
11,539
23.
Beyond Profit: Rethinking Corporate Social Responsibility and Greenwashing After the BP Oil Disaster
Tulane Law Review, Vol. 85, No. 4, p. 983, 2011
Number of pages: 56
Posted: 02 Sep 2010
Last Revised: 28 Apr 2013
Working Paper Series
St. John’s University - School of Law and Southern University Law Center
Downloads
11,439
24.
Corporate Governance in China: An Overview
Donald C. Clarke, "Corporate Governance in China: An Overview", China Economic Review, vol. 14, 2003, pp. 494-507
Number of pages: 14
Posted: 14 Aug 2003
Last Revised: 05 Dec 2014
Accepted Paper Series
George Washington University - Law School
Downloads
11,198
25.
How and Why Credit Rating Agencies are Not Like Other Gatekeepers
FINANCIAL GATEKEEPERS: CAN THEY PROTECT INVESTORS?, Yasuyuki Fuchita, Robert E. Litan, eds., Brookings Institution Press and the Nomura Institute of Capital Markets Research, 2006, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 07-46
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 04 May 2006
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
Downloads
10,855
26.
Did Fair-Value Accounting Contribute to the Financial Crisis?
Chicago Booth Research Paper 09-38, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 266/2009, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 15 Oct 2009
Last Revised: 15 Dec 2009
Working Paper Series
Vienna University of Economics and Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
There are 3 versions of this paper
Did Fair-Value Accounting Contribute to the Financial Crisis?
Chicago Booth Research Paper 09-38, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 266/2009, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 15 Oct 2009
Last Revised: 15 Dec 2009
Downloads
10,840
Did Fair-Value Accounting Contribute to the Financial Crisis?
NBER Working Paper No. w15515
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 17 Nov 2009
Last Revised: 25 May 2023
Downloads
150
Did Fair-Value Accounting Contribute to the Financial Crisis?
Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 24, pp. 93-118, Winter 2010
Posted: 22 Mar 2010
Downloads
10,840
27.
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
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
Downloads
10,705
28.
Conservatism in Accounting - Part I: Explanations and Implications
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 06 Jun 2003
Working Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads
10,604
29.
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
Harvard Business School
There are 3 versions of this paper
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
Downloads
10,073
The Agency Cost of Overvalued Equity and the Current State of Corporate Finance
Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 04-29
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 28 Oct 2004
Downloads
2,261
Agency Costs of Overvalued Equity
Financial Management, Vol. 34, No. 1, Spring 2005
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 24 Apr 2005
Downloads
46
Downloads
10,073
30.
The Future of Corporate Governance Part I: The Problem of Twelve
Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 19-07
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 03 Oct 2018
Last Revised: 14 Mar 2019
Working Paper Series
Harvard Law School
Downloads
9,941
31.
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
Duke University, University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business, Institue for Business and Social Impact, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Accounting, Business Law & Taxation
There are 2 versions of this paper
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
Downloads
9,527
Corporate Culture: Evidence from the Field
NBER Working Paper No. w23255
Number of pages: 79
Posted: 20 Mar 2017
Last Revised: 17 Jul 2023
Downloads
262
Downloads
9,527
32.
Audit Committee Characteristics and the Perceived Quality of Financial Reporting: An Empirical Analysis
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 24 Jun 2003
Working Paper Series
Nova Southeastern University, North Carolina State University - Poole College of Management and University of Scranton - Kania School of Management
Downloads
8,988
33.
Incentives or Standards: What Determines Accounting Quality Changes Around IFRS Adoption?
European Accounting Review Forthcoming
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 10 Sep 2007
Last Revised: 23 Feb 2015
Accepted Paper Series
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester - Manchester Business School and Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Downloads
8,842
34.
Shareholder Activism and Institutional Investors
UCLA School of Law, Law-Econ Research Paper No. 05-20
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 07 Sep 2005
Working Paper Series
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
Downloads
8,540
35.
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
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
8,535
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
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
There are 3 versions of this paper
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
Downloads
8,270
Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem
NBER Working Paper No. w9813
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 05 Jul 2003
Last Revised: 26 Oct 2022
Downloads
204
Downloads
8,270
37.
Salomon v Salomon: Its Impact on Modern Laws on Corporations
Number of pages: 8
Posted: 10 May 2018
Last Revised: 20 May 2018
Working Paper Series
Supreme Court of Nepal
Downloads
8,265
38.
Conservatism in Accounting
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 20 Jan 2003
Working Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads
8,092
39.
Financial Scandals and the Role of Private Enforcement: The Parmalat Case
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 40/2005
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 27 May 2005
Working Paper Series
University of Genoa - Law Department and Centre for Law and Finance and Free University of Bozen, Bolzano - School of Economics and Management
Downloads
8,067
40.
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
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
7,976
41.
A Theory of Path Dependence in Corporate Ownership and Governance
Stanford Law Review, Vol. 52, pp. 127-170, 1999, Columbia Law School, Center for Studies in Law & Economics Paper No. 131, November 1999
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 03 Jan 2000
Last Revised: 26 Apr 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
7,601
42.
Director Primacy: The Means and Ends of Corporate Governance
Number of pages: 71
Posted: 17 Feb 2002
Working Paper Series
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
Downloads
7,493
43.
Conservatism in Accounting - Part Ii: Evidence and Research Opportunities
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 27 Aug 2003
Working Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads
7,465
44.
Crypto-Securities Regulation: ICOs, Token Sales and Cryptocurrencies under EU Financial Law
15 European Company and Financial Law Review 645-696 (2018)
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 30 Nov 2017
Last Revised: 17 Apr 2019
Accepted Paper Series
European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) - European New School of Digital Studies and University of Vienna, Faculty of Law
Downloads
7,300
45.
Madoff: A Riot of Red Flags
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 02 Feb 2009
Last Revised: 24 Jan 2012
Working Paper Series
SUNY College at Plattsburgh and Kedge Capital Fund Management
Downloads
7,189
46.
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
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
Downloads
7,181
47.
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, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 53
Posted: 15 Sep 2022
Last Revised: 09 Nov 2023
Accepted Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School; Co-Director, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School - Institute for Law and Economics; European Corporate Governance Institute
Downloads
7,150
48.
Coin-Operated Capitalism
Columbia Law Review, Vol. 119, p. 591, 2019, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 18-37
Number of pages: 104
Posted: 18 Jul 2018
Last Revised: 31 May 2019
Accepted Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolPrinceton University - Center for Information Technology Policy, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School - Student/Alumni/Adjunct and Georgetown University Law CenterUniversity of Pennsylvania - Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition
Downloads
7,035
49.
Enron and Andersen - What Went Wrong and Why Similar Audit Failures Could Happen Again
ENRON: CORPORATE FIASCOS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS, pp. 155-168, Nancy B. Rapoport, Bala G. Dharan, eds., Foundation Press 2004
Number of pages: 14
Posted: 07 Sep 2005
Accepted Paper Series
Notre Dame Law School
Downloads
6,998
50.
Diversity on Corporate Boards: How Much Difference Does Difference Make?
Delaware Journal of Corporate Law (DJCL), Vol. 39, No. 2 pp. 377-426, 2014
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 01 Oct 2010
Last Revised: 11 Dec 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford Law School and Stanford Law School
Downloads
6,822
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