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Rank	Paper	Downloads
1.	Applying Economics – Not Gut Feel – To ESG Alex Edmans London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting Date Posted: 03 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 17 Mar 2023	4,115
2.	Using ETFs to Conceal Insider Trading Elza Eglīte, Dans Štaermans, Vinay Patel and Tālis J. Putniņš Stockholm School of Economics, Riga, Stockholm School of Economics, Riga, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Date Posted: 01 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 18 Feb 2023	1,838
3.	How Twitter Pushed Stakeholders Under The Bus Lucian A. Bebchuk, Kobi Kastiel and Anna Toniolo Harvard Law School, Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law and Harvard University - Harvard Law School Date Posted: 24 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 21 Mar 2023	1,463
4.	The Value of M&A Drafting Adam B. Badawi, Elisabeth de Fontenay and Julian Nyarko University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, Duke University School of Law and Stanford Law School Date Posted: 30 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 09 Feb 2023	1,049
5.	Counterproductive Sustainable Investing: The Impact Elasticity of Brown and Green Firms Samuel M. Hartzmark and Kelly Shue Boston College - Carroll School of Management and Yale School of Management Date Posted: 17 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2023	808
6.	The Business of Securities Class Action Lawyering Stephen J. Choi, Jessica Erickson and Adam C. Pritchard New York University School of Law, University of Richmond School of Law and University of Michigan Law School Date Posted: 09 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2023	797
7.	Quantifying the Returns of ESG Investing: An Empirical Analysis with Six ESG Metrics Florian Berg, Andrew W. Lo, Roberto Rigobon, Manish Singh and Ruixun Zhang 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 Date Posted: 03 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2023	566
8.	The Double Materiality Audit: Assurance of ESG Disclosure Deniz Appelbaum, Huijue Kelly Duan, Hanxin Hu and Ting Sun Montclair State University, Sacred Heart University, Rutgers Business School - Rutgers University and The College of New Jersey Date Posted: 28 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 28 Feb 2023	543
9.	Meme Corporate Governance Dhruv Aggarwal, Albert H. Choi and Yoon-Ho Alex Lee Yale University, School of Management, University of Michigan Law School and Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Date Posted: 07 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2023	505
10.	Do ESG Factors Influence Firm Valuation? Evidence from the Field Franck Bancel, Dejan Glavas and George Andrew Karolyi ESCP Business School, ESSCA school of management and Cornell University - SC Johnson College of Business Date Posted: 24 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2023	498

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As of: 02 Jan 1997 - 28 Mar 2023

Rank	Paper	Downloads
1.	The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Methodology and Analytical Issues Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay and Massimo Mastruzzi Results for Development, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and World Bank Institute Date Posted: 24 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2010	94,628
2.	Aggregate Confusion: The Divergence of ESG Ratings Florian Berg, Julian F Kölbel and Roberto Rigobon 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 Date Posted: 20 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 26 Apr 2022	52,865
3.	A Sober Look at SPACs Michael Klausner, Michael Ohlrogge and Emily Ruan Stanford Law School, New York University School of Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN Date Posted: 16 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2022	41,069
4.	The Evolution of Fintech: A New Post-Crisis Paradigm? Douglas W. Arner, Janos Nathan Barberis and Ross P. Buckley 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 Date Posted: 20 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 19 Dec 2019	35,672
5.	Strength in Numbers: How Does Data-Driven Decisionmaking Affect Firm Performance? 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 Date Posted: 24 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 12 Dec 2011	31,423
6.	Corporate Governance and Control Marco Becht, Patrick Bolton and Ailsa Röell Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (ULB), Imperial College London and Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs Date Posted: 31 Oct 2002 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2011	29,462
7.	A Review of the Earnings Management Literature and its Implications for Standard Setting Paul M. Healy and James Michael Wahlen Harvard Business School and Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Accounting Date Posted: 15 Mar 1999 Last Revised: 14 May 2014	28,149
8.	The Consequences of Mandatory Corporate Sustainability Reporting Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim London Business School - Department of Strategic & International Management and Harvard Business School Date Posted: 03 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 01 May 2017	22,878
9.	The History of Corporate Governance Brian R. Cheffins University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law Date Posted: 22 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 20 May 2013	22,683
10.	Corporate Sustainability: First Evidence on Materiality Mozaffar Khan, Mozaffar Khan, George Serafeim and Aaron Yoon University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of ManagementCauseway Capital Management, LLC, Harvard Business School and Northwestern University - Department of Accounting Information & Management Date Posted: 11 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2017	21,011