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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 b
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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 shin
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Bulgaria EU Presidency Conference
"Corporate governance towards a new culture for disclosure, transparency and anti-corruption"