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International Evidence on Firm Level Decisions in Response to the Crisis: Shareholders vs. Other Stakeholders
One of the interesting features of the 2008 financial crisis is the wide range of relationships between change
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Be Careful What You Wish For: How Progress Engendered Regression in Related Party Transaction Regulation in Israel
Because of their pernicious tendency to serve as a vehicle for extracting value from firms corporate related party transactions
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Optimal Short-Termism
Corporate short-termism has often been criticized because it could harm long-term performance.
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Empirical Studies of Corporate Law and Governance: Some Steps Forward and Some Steps Not
Empirical research on topics of corporate governance has grown tremendously in the past 30 years. Much of this work has been done by eco
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The relationship between public listing, context, multi-nationality and internal CSR
This cross-country study focuses on internal rather than external corporate social responsibility (CSR).
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The Promise of Reward Crowdfunding
Reward crowdfunding is fundamentally different from both debt and equity crowdfunding because the provider of funds does not buy a financ
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Activism and Takeovers
Hostile takeovers have long been considered the quintessential disciplinary governance mechanism, but a similarly confrontational strateg
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Opportunity Makes a Thief: Corporate Opportunities as Legal Transplant and Convergence in Corporate Law
The paper surveys the corporate opportunities doctrine in four jurisdictions: the US, the UK, Germany, and France.
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Overlapping Ownership, R&D Spillovers, and Antitrust Policy
In many industries, overlapping ownership arrangements (OOAs) are prevalent in the form of cross-shareholding agreements among firms or c