Recent Top Papers (60 days)

As of: 27 Jan 2023 - 28 Mar 2023
Rank Paper Downloads
1.

Applying Economics – Not Gut Feel – To ESG

London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting
4,115
2.

Using ETFs to Conceal Insider Trading

Stockholm School of Economics, Riga, Stockholm School of Economics, Riga, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
1,838
3.

How Twitter Pushed Stakeholders Under The Bus

Harvard Law School, Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law and Harvard University - Harvard Law School
1,463
4.

The Value of M&A Drafting

University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, Duke University School of Law and Stanford Law School
1,049
5.

Counterproductive Sustainable Investing: The Impact Elasticity of Brown and Green Firms

Boston College - Carroll School of Management and Yale School of Management
808
6.

The Business of Securities Class Action Lawyering

New York University School of Law, University of Richmond School of Law and University of Michigan Law School
797
7.

Quantifying the Returns of ESG Investing: An Empirical Analysis with Six ESG Metrics

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Peking University - School of Mathematical Sciences
566
8.

The Double Materiality Audit: Assurance of ESG Disclosure

Montclair State University, Sacred Heart University, Rutgers Business School - Rutgers University and The College of New Jersey
543
9.

Meme Corporate Governance

Yale University, School of Management, University of Michigan Law School and Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
505
10.

Do ESG Factors Influence Firm Valuation? Evidence from the Field

ESCP Business School, ESSCA school of management and Cornell University - SC Johnson College of Business
498

All Time Top Papers

As of: 02 Jan 1997 - 28 Mar 2023
Rank Paper Downloads
1.

The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Methodology and Analytical Issues

Results for Development, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and World Bank Institute
94,628
2.

Aggregate Confusion: The Divergence of ESG Ratings

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, University of St. Gallen - School of Finance and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
52,865
3.

A Sober Look at SPACs

Stanford Law School, New York University School of Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN
41,069
4.

The Evolution of Fintech: A New Post-Crisis Paradigm?

The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Law and University of New South Wales (UNSW) - UNSW Law & Justice
35,672
5.

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

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department and MIT - Sloan School of Management
31,423
6.

Corporate Governance and Control

Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (ULB), Imperial College London and Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs
29,462
7.

A Review of the Earnings Management Literature and its Implications for Standard Setting

Harvard Business School and Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Accounting
28,149
8.

The Consequences of Mandatory Corporate Sustainability Reporting

London Business School - Department of Strategic & International Management and Harvard Business School
22,878
9.

The History of Corporate Governance

University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
22,683
10.

Corporate Sustainability: First Evidence on Materiality

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of ManagementCauseway Capital Management, LLC, Harvard Business School and Northwestern University - Department of Accounting Information & Management
21,011