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101.

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
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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 5,956
102.

The Myth of the Shareholder Franchise

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 93, No. 3, pp. 675-732, 2007, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 567, October 2005
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 23 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 23 Jun 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk
Harvard Law School
Downloads 5,888
103.

Globalization and Similarities in Corporate Governance: A Cross-Country Analysis

Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 02-31; Strategy Unit Working Paper No. 02-041; Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 02-041
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 14 Oct 2002
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Krishna Palepu, Tarun Khanna and Joseph Kogan
Harvard University - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - Strategy Unit and Lehman Brothers, New York
Downloads 5,840
104.

Capital Structure and Firm Performance: A New Approach to Testing Agency Theory and an Application to the Banking Industry

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 26 Jun 2003
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Allen N. Berger and Emilia Bonaccorsi di Patti
University of South Carolina - Darla Moore School of Business and Bank of Italy
Downloads 5,820
105.

Active Ownership

Review of Financial Studies (RFS), Volume 28, Issue 12, pp. 3225-3268, 2015., Fox School of Business Research Paper No. 16-009
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 01 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 19 Mar 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Elroy Dimson, Oğuzhan Karakaş and Xi Li
University of Cambridge - Judge Business School, Cambridge Judge Business School - Finance Subject Group and London School of Economics
Downloads 5,813
106.

Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 69, pp. 751-846, 2002, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 366, June 2002
Number of pages: 97 Posted: 19 Jun 2002 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk, Jesse M. Fried and David I. Walker
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School and Boston University School of Law

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Downloads 5,697
107.

Enterprise Risk Management: Theory and Practice

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 04 Aug 2006
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Brian W. Nocco and René M. Stulz
Nationwide Insurance and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance

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Downloads 5,631
108.

Audit Committee Financial Expertise, Competing Corporate Governance Mechanisms, and Earnings Management

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 05 Mar 2006
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Joseph V. Carcello, Carl W. Hollingsworth, April Klein and Terry L. Neal
University of Tennessee, Clemson University, New York University (NYU) - Department of Accounting and University of Tennessee

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109.

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
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Jeffrey N. Gordon
Columbia Law School

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110.

Creditor Control Rights, Corporate Governance, and Firm Value

Number of pages: 79 Posted: 17 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2011
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Greg Nini, Amir Sufi and David C. Smith
Drexel University - Department of Finance, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Virginia - McIntire School of Commerce
Downloads 5,540
111.

Employee Stock Options (Esops) and Restricted Stock: Valuation Effects and Consequences

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 14 Nov 2005
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Aswath Damodaran
New York University - Stern School of Business
Downloads 5,489
112.

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
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John C. Coates IV
Harvard Law School
Downloads 5,478
113.

Analysis of Environmental and Economic Damages from British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Albany Law Review, Vol. 74, No. 1, 2011: 563-585
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 05 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2014
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Lawrence C. Smith, Murphy Smith and Paul Ashcroft
Louisiana Tech University (Retired), Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi-Department of Accounting and Missouri State University
Downloads 5,456
114.

The Truth About Reverse Mergers

Entrepreneurial Business Law Journal, Vol. 2, 2008
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 09 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2008
Accepted Paper Series
William K. Sjostrom
University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law
Downloads 5,450
115.

Corporate Governance and Accounting Scandals

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 17 Jan 2003
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Anup Agrawal and Sahiba Chadha
University of Alabama - Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration and University of Alabama - Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration

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Downloads 5,441
116.

Corporate Governance and Bank Performance

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 31 Aug 2007
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Kenneth Spong and Richard J. Sullivan
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Downloads 5,438
117.

Killer Acquisitions

Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 129, No. 3, pp. 649–702, March 2021
Number of pages: 97 Posted: 12 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 20 Mar 2021
Accepted Paper Series
Colleen Cunningham, Florian Ederer and Song Ma
London Business School, Yale School of Management and Yale School of Management
Downloads 5,411
118.

Enron and the Use and Abuse of Special Purpose Entities in Corporate Structures

University of Cincinnati Law Review, Vol. 70, p. 1309, 2006, Duke Law School Legal Studies Paper No. 28
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 12 May 2002
Accepted Paper Series
Steven L. Schwarcz
Duke University School of Law
Downloads 5,403
119.

Corporate Governance and the Cost of Equity Capital

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 03 Feb 2005
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Hollis Ashbaugh Skaife, Daniel W. Collins and Ryan LaFond
Graduate School of Management, UC-Davis, University of Iowa - Department of Accounting and Algert Global, LLC
Downloads 5,397
120.

Executive Equity Compensation and Incentives: A Survey

Economic Policy Review, Vol. 9, No. 1, April 2003
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 06 Sep 2005
Accepted Paper Series
John E. Core, Wayne R. Guay and David F. Larcker
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business

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Downloads 5,366
121.

The Failure of Private Equity

Southern California Law Review, Vol. 82, p. 481, 2009
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 23 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 25 May 2009
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Steven Davidoff Solomon
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
Downloads 5,362
122.

Corporate Governance and Firm Performance

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 28 Sep 2007
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Sanjai Bhagat and Brian J. Bolton
University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Finance and University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Downloads 5,283
123.

The Post-Merger Performance Puzzle

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 05 Jan 2000
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Anup Agrawal and Jeffrey F. Jaffe
University of Alabama - Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department

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124.

Valuing Declining and Distressed Companies

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 02 Jul 2009
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Aswath Damodaran
New York University - Stern School of Business
Downloads 5,208
125.

The New Vote Buying: Empty Voting and Hidden (Morphable) Ownership

As published in Southern California Law Review, Vol. 79, pp. 811-908, 2006, University of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 53
Number of pages: 99 Posted: 05 Jun 2006 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2008
Accepted Paper Series
Henry T. C. Hu and Bernard S. Black
University of Texas at Austin - School of Law and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads 5,202
126.

Corporate Governance, Accounting Outcomes, and Organizational Performance

Accounting Review, October 2007
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 30 Mar 2007
Accepted Paper Series
David F. Larcker, Scott A. Richardson and A. Irem Tuna
Stanford University - Graduate School of Business, AQR Capital Management, LLC and London Business School
Downloads 5,196
127.

Corporate Performance, Board Structure and its Determinants in the Banking Industry

EFA 2005 Moscow Meetings
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 20 Jun 2005
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Renee B. Adams and Hamid Mehran
University of Oxford and Independent
Downloads 5,141
128.

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 Department and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Downloads 5,119
129.

Active Investors, Lbos, and the Privatization of Bankruptcy

Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 35-44, Spring 1989, Harvard NOM Research Paper No. 00-08, A THEORY OF THE FIRM: GOVERNANCE, RESIDUAL CLAIMS AND ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS, Harvard University Press, December 2000
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 12 Oct 2000
Accepted Paper Series
Michael C. Jensen
Harvard Business School

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130.

Entrepreneurial Shareholder Activism: Hedge Funds and Other Private Investors

AAA 2007 Financial Accounting & Reporting Section (FARS) Meeting Paper, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 140/2006, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 06-41, 1st Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 05 Jul 2006 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2008
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April Klein and Emanuel Zur
New York University (NYU) - Department of Accounting and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business

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131.

Risk Management and Corporate Governance: The Importance of Independence and Financial Knowledge for the Board and the Audit Committee

HEC Montreal Working Paper No. 05-03
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 07 Jun 2005
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Georges Dionne and Thouraya Triki
HEC Montreal - Department of Finance and HEC Montreal

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132.

Continuous Auditing: An Effective Tool for Internal Auditors

Internal Auditing, 21(2): 27-35, March-April 2006
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 31 May 2006 Last Revised: 05 May 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Donald Warren and Murphy Smith
Rutgers University and Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi-Department of Accounting
Downloads 5,078
133.

Taxes and Corporate Finance

Number of pages: 92 Posted: 10 Apr 2001
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John R. Graham
Duke University
Downloads 5,069
134.

Us Corporate Governance: Lessons from the 1980's

Michael C. Jensen, A THEORY OF THE FIRM: GOVERNANCE, RESIDUAL CLAIMS AND ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS, Harvard University Press, December 2000, THE PORTABLE MBA IN FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING, John Leslie Livingstone, ed., Wiley, 1995
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 09 Oct 2000 Last Revised: 24 Apr 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Michael C. Jensen and Don Chew
Harvard Business School and Journal of Applied Corporate Finance
Downloads 5,022
135.

Motives for Mergers and Acquisitions in the Indian Banking Sector - A Note on Opportunities & Imperatives

SPJCM Singapore Working Paper No. 06-13
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 22 Aug 2007
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Ram Kumar Kakani and Jay Mehta
Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) and XLRI Jamshedpur - School of Human Resources
Downloads 5,015
136.

CEO Compensation

Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 77
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 01 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 29 Nov 2010
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Carola Frydman and Dirk Jenter
Northwestern University and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Finance

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Downloads 4,955
137.

The Management of Corporate Capital Structure: Theory and Evidence

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 13 Jan 1997
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Gerald T. Garvey and Gordon R. Hanka
Blackrock and University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance
Downloads 4,889
138.

Governance and Intermediation Problems in Capital Markets: Evidence from the Fall of Enron

Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 02-27
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 15 Oct 2002
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Paul M. Healy and Krishna Palepu
Harvard Business School and Harvard University - Harvard Business School
Downloads 4,836
139.

Ultimate Ownership and Bank Competition

Number of pages: 87 Posted: 03 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 08 May 2019
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José Azar, Sahil Raina and Martin C. Schmalz
University of Navarra, IESE Business School, Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta and University of Oxford - Finance
Downloads 4,834
140.

The Effect of SOX Internal Control Deficiencies on Firm Risk and Cost of Equity

Journal of Accounting Research, Forthcoming 2008
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 20 Apr 2006 Last Revised: 07 Nov 2008
Accepted Paper Series
Hollis Ashbaugh Skaife, Daniel W. Collins, William R. Kinney Jr. and Ryan LaFond
Graduate School of Management, UC-Davis, University of Iowa - Department of Accounting, University of Texas at Austin - Department of Accounting and Algert Global, LLC
Downloads 4,824
141.

Shareholder Wealth Effects of European Domestic and Cross-Border Takeover Bids

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 23 Jan 2003
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Marc Goergen and Luc Renneboog
IE Business School, IE University and Tilburg University - Department of Finance

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Downloads 4,725
142.

Socially Responsible Investments: Methodology, Risk Exposure and Performance

TILEC Discussion Paper No. 2007-013, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 175/2007, WBS Finance Group Research Paper No. 80
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 10 May 2007 Last Revised: 23 Dec 2019
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Luc Renneboog, Jenke ter Horst and Chendi Zhang
Tilburg University - Department of Finance, TIAS School for Business and Society and University of Exeter Business School
Downloads 4,721
143.

Asymmetric Information and the Choice of Corporate Governance Arrangements

Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 398
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 04 Nov 2002 Last Revised: 08 May 2009
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Lucian A. Bebchuk
Harvard Law School
Downloads 4,687
144.

Less is More: Making Shareholder Activism a Valued Mechanism of Corporate Governance

Number of pages: 142 Posted: 22 Jun 2000
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Roberta Romano
Yale Law School
Downloads 4,686
145.

Hedge Funds, Insiders, and the Decoupling of Economic and Voting Ownership: Empty Voting and Hidden (Morphable) Ownership

Journal of Corporate Finance, vol. 13, pp. 343-367, 2007, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 56/2006, McCombs Research Paper Series No. FIN-02-06, U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 53
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 10 Jan 2006
Accepted Paper Series
Henry T. C. Hu and Bernard S. Black
University of Texas at Austin - School of Law and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads 4,654
146.

What's a Director to Do?

Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 02-38
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 17 Feb 2004
Accepted Paper Series
Joseph Fuller and Michael C. Jensen
The Monitor Company and Harvard Business School
Downloads 4,647
147.

Characteristics of Firms with Material Weaknesses in Internal Control: An Assessment of Section 404 of Sarbanes Oxley

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 04 Apr 2005
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Stephen H. Bryan and Steven B. Lilien
Wake Forest University and City University of New York (CUNY) - Stan Ross Department of Accountancy
Downloads 4,639
148.

The Information Role of Conservatism

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 02 Aug 2006
Working Paper Series
Ryan LaFond and Ross L. Watts
Algert Global, LLC and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

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Downloads 4,613
149.

Passive Investors, Not Passive Owners

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 03 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Ian Appel, Todd A. Gormley and Donald B. Keim
Boston College - Carroll School of Management, Washington University in St. Louis and University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School
Downloads 4,611
150.

The Impairment of Purchased Goodwill: Effects on Market Value

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 19 Sep 2006 Last Revised: 25 May 2012
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Kevin Li, Amir Amel-Zadeh and Geoff Meeks
University of Cambridge - Judge Business School, University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of Cambridge - Judge Business School
Downloads 4,521