1.
What is Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software
Communications & Strategies, No. 1, p. 17, First Quarter 2007
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 22 Aug 2007
Accepted Paper Series
O'Reilly Media
Downloads
46,030
2.
Governance Matters VIII: Aggregate and Individual Governance Indicators, 1996-2008
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4978
Number of pages: 105
Posted: 23 Jun 2009
Working Paper Series
Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and World Bank Institute
Downloads
41,268
3.
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
34,887
What Matters in Corporate Governance?
The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 22, Issue 2, pp. 783-827, 2009
Posted: 25 Jan 2009
Downloads
34,887
4.
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
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27,485
5.
Law on Obligations and Contracts in the Philippines: An Overview
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 29 Apr 2014
Working Paper Series
Far Eastern University
Downloads
27,089
6.
A Sober Look at SPACs
Yale Journal on Regulation, Forthcoming, 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: 63
Posted: 16 Nov 2020
Last Revised: 02 Apr 2021
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford Law School, New York University School of Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads
25,771
7.
Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization
UCLA Law Review, Vol. 57, p. 1701, 2010, U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 9-12
Number of pages: 77
Posted: 13 Jul 2012
Last Revised: 22 Feb 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads
24,475
8.
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
23,795
9.
Governance Matters VI: Governance Indicators for 1996-2006
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4280
Number of pages: 94
Posted: 11 Jul 2007
Working Paper Series
Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and World Bank Institute
Downloads
23,144
10.
The Right to Remain Silent: A New Answer to an Old Question
Criminal Justice, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2010
Number of pages: 3
Posted: 01 Mar 2012
Last Revised: 05 Mar 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Regent University - School of Law
Downloads
22,833
11.
Underwater and Not Walking Away: Shame, Fear and the Social Management of the Housing Crisis
Wake Forest Law Review, Vol. 45, p. 971, 2010, Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No 09-35
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 27 Oct 2009
Last Revised: 09 May 2015
Working Paper Series
University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law
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19,789
12.
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
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19,759
13.
International Corporate Governance
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 30 Jul 2002
Working Paper Series
University of Pittsburgh - Katz School of Business and Purdue University
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19,144
14.
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
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18,983
15.
Governance Matters VII: Aggregate and Individual Governance Indicators, 1996-2007
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4654
Number of pages: 105
Posted: 20 Jun 2008
Last Revised: 26 Jun 2008
Working Paper Series
Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and World Bank Institute
Downloads
18,494
16.
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
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17,189
17.
The Storrs Lectures: Behavioral Economics and Paternalism
Yale Law Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 60
Posted: 02 Dec 2012
Last Revised: 22 Nov 2017
Working Paper Series
Harvard Law School
Downloads
16,195
18.
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
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15,145
19.
Nudging: A Very Short Guide
37 J. Consumer Pol'y 583 (2014)
Number of pages: 7
Posted: 23 Sep 2014
Last Revised: 11 Oct 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School
Downloads
14,937
20.
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
14,927
21.
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
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13,711
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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13,711
22.
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
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13,544
23.
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: 20 Nov 2011
Working Paper Series
University of Mannheim - Accounting and Taxation, 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: 20 Nov 2011
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13,294
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 Nov 2011
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13,294
24.
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
13,061
25.
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
University College of London - Center for Blockchain Technologies
Downloads
12,940
26.
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 Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics
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
Downloads
12,814
The Long-Term Effects of Hedge Fund Activism
NBER Working Paper No. w21227
Number of pages: 85
Posted: 08 Jun 2015
Last Revised: 14 Jun 2015
Downloads
118
Downloads
12,814
27.
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
12,718
Audit Committee, Board of Director Characteristics, and Earnings Management
NYU Working Paper No. 2451/27450
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 08 Oct 2008
Downloads
1,008
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
12,718
28.
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
12,597
29.
Who Owns Huawei?
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 08 May 2019
Working Paper Series
Fulbright University Vietnam and George Washington University - Law School
Downloads
12,346
30.
Regulating Bankers' Pay
Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 98, No. 2, pp. 247-287, 2010, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 641
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 30 May 2009
Last Revised: 08 Oct 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
12,069
31.
Backdating
Business Lawyer, 2008
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 27 Mar 2008
Accepted Paper Series
Loyola University Chicago School of Law and Harrison & Held, LLP
Downloads
11,271
32.
Drugged Out: How Cognitive Bias Hurts Drug Innovation
51 San Diego Law Review 419 (2014)
Number of pages: 90
Posted: 01 Sep 2013
Last Revised: 09 Aug 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Loyola University of Chicago School of Law
Downloads
11,208
33.
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
11,085
34.
2017 Global Blockchain Benchmarking Study
Number of pages: 122
Posted: 21 Sep 2017
Last Revised: 20 Oct 2019
Working Paper Series
London School of Economics and University of Cambridge - Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Downloads
11,076
35.
Governance Matters
Number of pages: 64
Posted: 05 Nov 1999
Working Paper Series
Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
Downloads
10,966
36.
Copyright and the World's Most Popular Song
56 Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. 335 (2009) , GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 392
Number of pages: 69
Posted: 21 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 12 Oct 2019
Accepted Paper Series
George Washington University - Law School
Downloads
10,777
37.
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
10,710
38.
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
10,620
Did Fair-Value Accounting Contribute to the Financial Crisis?
NBER Working Paper No. w15515
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 17 Nov 2009
Last Revised: 24 May 2021
Downloads
115
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
10,620
39.
Competition and Crisis in Mortgage Securitization
Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 88, p.213, (2013)
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 10 Sep 2011
Last Revised: 22 Sep 2013
Accepted Paper Series
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
There are 2 versions of this paper
Competition and Crisis in Mortgage Securitization
Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 88, p.213, (2013)
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 10 Sep 2011
Last Revised: 22 Sep 2013
Downloads
10,594
Competition and Crisis in Mortgage Securitization
Canadian Law & Economics Association Conference, September 2011
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 02 Oct 2011
Last Revised: 11 Jan 2012
Downloads
838
Downloads
10,594
40.
Safe Storage Gun Laws: Accidental Deaths, Suicides, and Crime
Yale Law School, Law & Economics Working Paper No. 237
Number of pages: 72
Posted: 22 May 2000
Working Paper Series
Crime Prevention Research Center and Crime Prevention Research Center
There are 2 versions of this paper
Safe Storage Gun Laws: Accidental Deaths, Suicides, and Crime
Yale Law School, Law & Economics Working Paper No. 237
Number of pages: 72
Posted: 22 May 2000
Downloads
10,385
Downloads
10,385
41.
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
10,312
42.
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
10,287
43.
The Wages of Failure: Executive Compensation at Bear Stearns and Lehman 2000-2008
Yale Journal on Regulation, Vol. 27, 2010, pp. 257-282, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 657, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 287
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 26 Nov 2009
Last Revised: 01 Dec 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
10,211
44.
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
10,179
45.
The Promise and Perils of Credit Derivatives
University of Cincinnati Law Review, Vol. 75, p. 1019, 2007, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 06-22, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 06-36, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 07-74
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 13 Sep 2006
Last Revised: 20 Mar 2010
Accepted Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania Law School and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
Downloads
10,151
46.
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
Saint Louis University - School of Law and Mercer University School of Law
Downloads
9,980
47.
Governance Matters IV: Governance Indicators for 1996-2004
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series No. 3630
Number of pages: 135
Posted: 05 May 2005
Working Paper Series
Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and World Bank Institute
Downloads
9,851
48.
Governance Matters Iii: Governance Indicators for 1996-2002
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3106
Number of pages: 116
Posted: 18 Jun 2003
Working Paper Series
Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and World Bank Institute
Downloads
9,681
49.
Regulating Artificial Intelligence Systems: Risks, Challenges, Competencies, and Strategies
Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, Vol. 29, No. 2, Spring 2016
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 31 May 2015
Last Revised: 21 Sep 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Center for Democracy and Technology
Downloads
9,664
50.
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 4 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
9,594
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
2,047
The Agency Costs of Overvalued Equity and the Current State of Corporate Finance
European Financial Management, Vol. 10, pp. 549-565, December 2004
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 30 Nov 2004
Downloads
28
Agency Costs of Overvalued Equity
Financial Management, Vol. 34, No. 1, Spring 2005
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 24 Apr 2005
Downloads
20
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9,594
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