Related Party Transactions in Commonwealth Asia: Complexity Revealed
The World Bank’s influential Doing Business Report (DBR) has been a key platform for the American-driven dissemination of global norms of good...
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Empirical Studies of Corporate Law and Governance: Some Steps Forward and Some Steps Not
This chapter examines the empirical literature on corporate law and governance in the United States. Four areas of the US corporate governance...
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Disclosure of Inside Information
The disclosure of inside information is a core component of EU capital market regulation. It underpins the market abuse regime, providing information...
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Internal Investigations, Whistleblowing and External Monitoring: Comparative Experiences, Economic Insights, Findings from Corporate Practice
Internal investigations, whistleblowing and external monitoring, are three information and enforcement channels and part of the corporate...
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The Economic Significance of Laws Relating to Employment Protection and Different Forms of Employment: Analysis of a Panel of 117 Countries, 1990-2013
This paper presents findings from analysis of a dataset of labour laws, based on the Centre for Business Research Labour Regulation Index (CBR-LRI),...
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Comparative Company Law 2018
Comparative company law is at once very old and very modern. It is very old because ever since companies and company laws first existed, trade has...
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Convergence and Persistence in Corporate Law and Governance
This paper, which will be the basis for a chapter in the forthcoming OXFORD HANDBOOK OF CORPORATE LAW AND GOVERNANCE (Jeffrey Gordon and Georg Ringe,...
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Institutional Investors in China: Corporate Governance and Policy Channeling in the Market Within the State
The extraordinary rise of China’s economy has made understanding Chinese corporate governance an issue of global importance. A rich literature has...
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The Protection of Investors and the Compensation for their Losses: Australia
The concept of ‘investor protection’ has a long-standing legal pedigree in relation to the business corporation. Since the early 20th century,...
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Governance Challenges of Listed State-Owned Enterprises around the World: National Experiences and a Framework for Reform
Despite predictions of their demise in the aftermath of the collapse of socialist economies in Eastern Europe, state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are very...
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General Principles of EU Corporate and Insolvency Law
Over more than forty years, the European Union (formerly the European Community) has enacted a large number of directives aimed at harmonising company...
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Trust and Shareholder Voting
We show that in countries with more societal trust shareholders cast fewer votes at shareholder meetings and are more supportive of management...
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