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The Promise and Perils of Crowdfunding: Between Corporate Finance and Consumer Contracts
Crowdfunding by start-up firms has grown astonishingly rapidly in the past few years.
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Good Activist/Bad Activist: The Rise of International Stewardship Codes
This paper focuses on recent trends in shareholder participation in corporate governance in a number of major developed countries.
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Mapping Types of Shareholder Lawsuits Across Jurisdictions
When corporate law scholars explore shareholder litigation abroad, they often start by looking for types of shareholder litigation famili
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Why Do Businesses Incorporate in Other EU Member States? An Empirical Analysis of the Role of Conflict of Laws Rules
Research in law, political science and economics has taken a strong interest in the way companies strategically incorporate in foreign ju
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Investing in Managerial Honesty
Two laboratory experiments show that investors perceive a CEO to be more committed to honesty when the CEO resisted, at a personal cost,
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Employment and Wage Insurance within Firms: Worldwide Evidence
If unemployment insurance is more generous, workers should demand less implicit insurance from their employers: firm- and government-prov
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Private Equity and Human Capital Risk
The social costs associated with private equity restructuring have been the subject of emotional debates.
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Takeovers and (Excess) CEO Compensation
We study if a CEO’s equity-based compensation affects the expected value generation in takeovers.
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Board Quotas and Director-Firm Matching
We study the impact of board gender quotas on the labor market for corporate directors.