In 2014, the Italian Government broke an old taboo of Italian corporate law, joining the ranks of many different legal systems that allow the issuance of...
The regulation of corporate behaviour has persisted in spite of peaks of neo-liberalism in many developed jurisdictions of the world, including the UK....
After the Covid-19 crisis struck, equity prices abruptly plunged across the world. The clear prospect of an almost unprecedented decrease in supply and...
This article examines the economic underpinnings of the concept of corporate purpose, which has gained increasing attention from business academics,...
In 2018, California became the first U.S. state to introduce a mandatory board gender quota for all firms headquartered in the state. Even though the...
Search costs for lenders when evaluating potential borrowers are driven by the quality of the underwriting model and access to data. Both have undergone...
The debate on banking regulation has been dominated by flawed and misleading claims. Such claims provided the basis for poorly designed rules. Despite...
This paper examines the UK's system for public oversight of financial and corporate governance disclosures by issuers and of auditors, taking account...