Journal Articles
This page highlights published journal articles authored by ECGI Research Members. Many of these articles also feature in the pre-publication series: The ECGI Working Paper Series.
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The Rise of Independent Directors in the United States, 1950-2005 Of Shareholder Value and Stock Market Prices
Stanford Law ReviewVolume 59, Issue 6 | Pages 1465-1568 -
Differences in Governance Practices between U.S. and Foreign Firms: Measurement, Causes, and Consequences
The Review of Financial StudiesVolume 23, Issue 3 | Pages 3131-3169 -
The Role of Boards of Directors in Corporate Governance: A Conceptual Framework and Survey
Journal of Economic LiteratureVolume 48, Issue 1 | Pages 58-107 -
Investor Protection, Equity Returns, and Financial Globalization
Journal of Financial and Quantitative AnalysisVolume 45, Issue 1 | Pages 135- 168 -
Bankers on the Boards of German Firms: What They Do, What They Are Worth, and Why They Are (Still) There
Review of FinanceVolume 14, Issue 1 | Pages 35-71 -
A Simple Theory of Takeover Regulation in the United States and Europe
Cornell International Law JournalVolume 42, Issue 3, Fall 2009 | Pages 301-334 -
Hedge Fund Activism in the Enforcement of Bondholder Rights
Northwestern University Law ReviewVolume 103, Issue 1, Winter 2009 | Pages 281-322 -
Private Enforcement of Corporate Law: An Empirical Comparison of the United Kingdom and the United States
Journal of Empirical Legal StudiesVolume 6, Issue 4 | Pages 687- 722 -
Financial contracting with strategic investors: Evidence from corporate venture capital backed IPOs
Journal of Financial IntermediationVolume 18, Issue 4 | Pages 599- 631 -
Ownership: Evolution and Regulation
The Review of Financial StudiesVolume 22, Issue 10 | Pages 4009-4056 -
Pension Reform, Ownership Structure, and Corporate Governance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
The Review of Financial StudiesVolume 22, Issue 10 | Pages 4091-4127 -
Why are the French so different from the Germans? Underpricing of IPOs on the Euro New Markets
International Review of Law and EconomicsVolume 29, Issue 3 | Pages 260- 271 -
Government Control of Privatized Firms
The Review of Financial StudiesVolume 22, Issue 8 | Pages 2907- 2939 -
Returns to Shareholder Activism: Evidence from a Clinical Study of the Hermes UK Focus Fund
The Review of Financial StudiesVolume 22, Issue 8 | Pages 3093-3129 -
Managerial ownership dynamics and firm value
Journal of Financial EconomicsVolume 92, Issue 3 | Pages 342-361 -
Sudden Deaths: Taking Stock of Geographic Ties
Journal of Financial and Quantitative AnalysisVolume 44, Issue 3 | Pages 683- 718 -
Contracting for Innovation: Vertical Disintegration and Interfirm Collaboration
Columbia Law ReviewVolume 109, Issue 3 | Pages 431- 502 -
Financial Integration and Firm Performance: Evidence from Foreign Bank Entry in Emerging Markets
Review of FinanceVolume 13, Issue 2 | Pages 181-223 -
Civil Liability and Mandatory Disclosure
Columbia Law ReviewVolume 109, Issue 2 | Pages 237- 308 -
Creditor financing and overbidding in bankruptcy auctions: Theory and tests
Journal of Corporate FinanceVolume 15, Issue 1 | Pages 10- 29 -
Merger negotiations and the toehold puzzle
Journal of Financial EconomicsVolume 91, Issue 2 | Pages 158-178 -
The Corporate Governance of Privately Controlled Brazilian Firms
Revista Brasileira de FinançasVolume 7, Issue 4 | Pages 385-428 -
Regulatory show and tell: lessons from international statutory regimes
Delaware Journal of Corporate LawVolume 33, Issue 3 | Pages 819- 843 -
There Are Plaintiffs and ... There Are Plaintiffs: An Empirical Analysis of Securities Class Action Settlements
Vanderbilt Law ReviewVolume 61, Issue 2 | Pages 355-386 -
Hedge Fund Activism, Corporate Governance, and Firm Performance
The Journal of FinanceVolume 63, Issue 4 | Pages 1729- 1775 -
How Preussag Became TUI: A Clinical Study of Institutional Blockholders and Restructuring in Europe
Financial ManagementVolume 37, Issue 3, Autumn 2008 | Pages 571-598 -
Contractual corporate governance
Journal of Corporate FinanceVolume 14, Issue 3 | Pages 166- 182 -
Where do firms incorporate? Deregulation and the cost of entry
Journal of Corporate FinanceVolume 14, Issue 3 | Pages 241- 256 -
Agency Conflicts, Investment, and Asset Pricing
The Journal of FinanceVolume 63, Issue 1 | Pages 1-40 -
Deconstructing Equity: Public Ownership, Agency Costs, and Complete Capital Markets
Columbia Law ReviewVolume 108, Issue 1 | Pages 231- 264 -
One Share-One Vote: The Empirical Evidence
Review of FinanceVolume 12, Issue 1 | Pages 51-91 -
Hedge Funds and Governance Targets
The Georgetown Law JournalVolume 95 | Pages 1375- 1433 -
Can Corporate Governance Reforms Increase Firm Market Values? Event Study Evidence from India
Journal of Empirical Legal StudiesVolume 4, Issue 4 | Pages 749- 796 -
Constraining Dominant Shareholders' Self-Dealing: The Legal Framework in France, Germany, and Italy
European Company and Financial Law ReviewVolume 4, Issue 4 | Pages 491-528 -
Corporate Governance and Acquirer Returns
The Journal of FinanceVolume 62, Issue 4 | Pages 1851-1889 -
Corporate Social Responsibility and Managerial Entrenchment
Journal of Economics & Management StrategyVolume 16, Issue 3, Fall 2007 | Pages 741-771 -
Hedge funds, insiders, and the decoupling of economic and voting ownership: Empty voting and hidden (morphable) ownership
Journal of Corporate FinanceVolume 13, Issues 2-3 | Pages 343- 367 -
Hedge Funds in Corporate Governance and Corporate Control
University of Pennsylvania Law ReviewVolume 155, Issue 5 | Pages 1021 -1093 -
European Company Law Beyond the 2003 Action Plan
European Business Organization Law ReviewVolume 8 | Pages 143-160 -
A Theory of Friendly Boards
The Journal of FinanceVolume 62, Issue 1 | Pages 217-250 -
Lower Salaries and No Options? On the Optimal Structure of Executive Pay
The Journal of FinanceVolume 62, Issue 1 | Pages 303-343 -
Insider Trading, News Releases, and Ownership Concentration
The Journal of FinanceVolume 61, Issue 6 | Pages 2931- 2973 -
Outside Director Liability: A Policy Analysis
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical EconomicsVolume 162, Issue 1 | Pages 5-20 -
Does Corporate Governance Predict Firms' Market Values? Evidence from Korea
The Journal of Law, Economics, & OrganizationVolume 22, Issue 2 | Pages 366-413 -
THE EQUILIBRIUM CONTENT OF CORPORATE FEDERALISM
Wake Forest Law ReviewVolume 41, Issue 3 | Pages 619-696 -
Predicting firms' corporate governance choices: Evidence from Korea
Journal of Corporate FinanceVolume 12, Issue 3 | Pages 660- 691 -
Which Investors Fear Expropriation? Evidence from Investors' Portfolio Choices
The Journal of FinanceVolume 61, Issue 3 | Pages 1507-1547 -
Empty Voting and Hidden (Morphable) Ownership: Taxonomy, Implications, and Reforms
The Business LawyerVolume 61, Issue 3 | Pages 1011-1070