The Economics of Financial Markets and Institutions is based on introductory lectures on financial economics delivered to master students in law in the Department of Law at the University of Oxford. The aim is to keep the levels of mathematical complexity to a minimum while, at the same time, to aim high, conceptually, emphasizing the close links between financial and economic analysis. The book assumes no previous knowledge of economics; rather economic concepts are developed from first principles, then applied, up front, to the analysis of financial markets and institutions. Though aimed, originally, at an audience of lawyers, the book is suitable for anyone interested in a better understanding of the rich and complex institutional structure of financial markets.

Company Directors: Principles of Law and Corporate Governance is a detailed, scholarly and comprehensive analysis of corporate law and governance principles as they relate to Australian company directors.

This major work of over 1300 pages is an invaluable addition to existing Australian corporate law knowledge, and is an essential resource for practising lawyers, company directors, company secretaries, inhouse counsel and academics, as well as those with an interest in company directors and corporate governance.

If your work deals with finance, you must understand how the real-world impacts of climate change are reshaping stakeholders’ expectations. Businesses cannot sit back and be passive spectators of the government’s actions. Rather, they need to participate in efforts to combat climate change and contribute in different ways. Many long-term investors are increasingly concerned that failure to act could endanger the long-term returns on their assets. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has already issued several warnings in letters to shareholders.

Climate Finance will help you act in a positive way. It provides a comprehensive overview of climate-related financial issues. Finance is about linking demand for capital to suppliers of capital. Defined in this broad sense, finance (including financial players such as shareholders, debtholders, capital markets, regulators/central banks, and boards) has an important role to play in tackling the challenges ahead. The book covers every aspect of climate-related finance and disentangles the complex layers of decision-making around it.

The product of a long-standing collaboration and recent collective research effort by members of the CGEUI network, The European Corporation makes an important contribution to the ongoing debate over convergence to the Anglo-Saxon model of corporate governance and persistence in corporate governance and law in Europe. This book fills the gap in the debate, and literature's lack of country-specific evidence on the evolution of ownership and control which has proven to be a serious impediment to both legal and economic analysis and evidence-based policymaking. It provides systematic and comparable accounts of ownership and control structure change (respectively persistence) in large firms across Europe over the decades following the 'global corporate governance revolution' in the 1990s. Focusing on countries in Europe's four main regions, this volume presents and discusses the net effects of the interplay between the 'global corporate governance revolution' and of its main countervailing forces in Europe.

Shareholder inspection rights form an important tool for shareholder protection. They offer shareholders seeking information private access to specific books and records of the company that are otherwise not publicly available. While there has been a discourse on the topic in some jurisdictions such as Delaware (USA), it has not received scholarly treatment at an international level. This Research Handbook seeks to alter that, and signifies the first endeavor to engage in a comprehensive and comparative analysis of shareholder inspection rights across 19 different jurisdictions representing five continents.

Themes emerging from the study include the historical evolution of inspection rights, the statutory design of the inspection regime, how inspection rights interact with disclosure norms under securities regulation, and the manner in which inspection rights are actually utilized by shareholders. While there is some commonality among jurisdictions, the larger story is one of divergence, which is understandable since local needs tend to drive the design and operation of the regime.

The Research Handbook on Shareholder Inspection Rights is invaluable to academics, scholars, and students working in the area of corporate law and governance, legal practitioners working in corporate law and, in particular, shareholder litigation and regulators and government bodies overseeing the corporate sector, including corporate and securities regulators.

Contributors

Jan Andersson, Tim Bowley, Pierre-Henri Conac, James D. Cox, Hans De Wulf, David C. Donald, Paolo Giudici, Marcelo Godke Veiga, Gen Goto, María Gutiérrez Urtiaga, Brenda Hannigan, Jonathan Hardman, Jennifer G. Hill, Robin Hui Huang, Neha Joshi, Kon Sik Kim, Kenneth J. Martin, Peter Molk, Dan W. Puchniak, Poonam Puri, Francisco Reyes Villamizar, Maribel Sáez Lacave, Samantha Tang, Christoph Teichmann, Randall S. Thomas, Christoph Van der Elst, Umakanth Varottil, Marcelo Vieira von Adamek 

The Art and Practice of Corporate Governance examines the central issues of corporate governance today, including board effectiveness, compensation and incentives, organizational risk, succession planning, activism, and ESG. Written in a clear and direct style by two well-known researchers, each chapter explores a specific topic within corporate governance, weaving together compelling stories and practical research to illustrate the factors that drive good and bad outcomes. This book is a must-read for executives, directors, shareholders, and anyone else interested in learning how companies are run and how to improve their performance.

This book adopts a historical perspective to highlight, and bring back into focus, the key features of the modern company. A central argument in the book is that legal personhood attaching to an entity containing a corporate fund seeded by shareholders is a direct and inevitable consequence of limited liability and the company's status as a separate legal entity from its shareholders. Management by a board subject to legal duties to the company as an entity that can exist in perpetuity facilitates a long term perspective by the board that can accommodate both shareholder and stakeholder interests. These defining characteristics differentiate the modern company from other business forms.

The Making of the Modern Company applies a 21st-century lens to the corporation through its history to identify turning points in its development. It sets out how key features emerged in the course of two separate developmental cycles in English corporate law: first with the English East India Company in the 17th century, and then with general incorporation statutes in the 2nd half of the 19th century. The book's historical perspective highlights that the key features are part of the 'secret sauce' of modern companies. Each cycle coincided with unparalleled periods of economic success associated with corporate activity

This book will be of interest to corporate law and governance academics, theorists and practitioners, those who study the company from related disciplines, and anyone who questions why uncertainty still exists about the structure of a legal form that has been described as 'amongst mankind's greatest inventions'.

The forces behind an economic and political crisis in the making

A “problem of twelve” arises when a small number of institutions acquire the means to exert outsized influence over the politics and economy of a nation.

The Big Four index funds of Vanguard, State Street, Fidelity, and BlackRock control more than twenty percent of the votes of S&P 500 companies—a concentration of power that’s unprecedented in America. Then there’s the rise of private equity funds, such as the Big Four of Apollo, Blackstone, Carlyle, and KKR, which have amassed $2.7 trillion of assets, and are eroding the legitimacy and accountability of American capitalism—not by controlling public companies, but by taking them over entirely, and removing them from public disclosure and scrutiny.

This quiet accumulation in the last few decades represents a dramatic transformation in how the American economy operates—a sea change that few of us have noticed and all of us need to consider. Harvard law professor John Coates forcefully calls our attention to what is sure to be one of the major political and economic issues of our time.