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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
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Dividends and Taxes: The Moderating Role of Agency Conflicts
The relationship between dividends and taxes continues to be an open empirical question.
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Self-commitments and the Binding Force of Self-regulation with Respect to Third Parties in Germany
Around 200 years ago Sir William Blackstone, the great commentator of English common law, used the metaphor of a shingle to describe the
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Bulgaria EU Presidency Conference
"Corporate governance towards a new culture for disclosure, transparency and anti-corruption"