TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hill,Claire A.
AU  - McDonnell,Brett H.
TI  - Research handbook on the economics of corporate law
T2  - Research handbooks in law and economics
SN  - 9781848449589 (hardback)
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - Cheltenham, U.K.
PB  - Edward Elgar
KW  - Corporation law
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Commercial law
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction; The evolution of the economic analysis of corporate law; Claire A. Hill and Brett H. McDonnell --; Director primacy; Stephen M. Bainbridge --; Corporate law and the team production problem; Margaret M. Blair --; The role of shareholders in the modern American corporation; D. Gordon Smith --; Creditors and debt governance; Charles K. Whitehead --; Employees and the boundaries of the corporation; Matthew T. Bodie --; The role of the public interest in corporate law; Ian B. Lee --; Fiduciary duties : the emerging jurisprudence; Claire A. Hill and Brett H. McDonnell --; Empirical studies of representative litigation; Randall S. Thomas and Robert B. Thompson --; The elusive quest for director independence; Lisa M. Fairfax --; 'Low-cost' shareholder activism : a review of the evidence; Fabrizio Ferri --; Takeover theory and the law and economics movement; Steven M. Davidoff --; The law and economics of executive compensation : theory and evidence; David I. Walker --; Transaction cost engineers, loophole engineers or gatekeepers : the role of business lawyers after the financial meltdown; Richard W. Painter --; Credit rating agencies and regulatory reform; Aline Darbellay and Frank Partnoy --; The influence of law and economics on law and accounting : two steps forward, one step back; Lawrence A. Cunningham --; The role and regulation of the research analyst; Jill E. Fisch --; D & O insurance and the ability of shareholder litigation to deter; Sean J. Griffith --; The influence of investment banks on corporate governance; Tamar Frankel --; Varieties of corporate law-making : competition, preemption, and federalism; Robert B. Ahdieh --; The past and future of comparative corporate governance; Donald C. Clarke --; Self-dealing by corporate insiders : legal constraints and loopholes; Vladimir Atanasov, Bernard Black and Conrad S. Ciccotello --; Behavioral approaches to corporate law; Donald C. Langevoort --; Market efficiency after the fall : where do we stand following the financial crisis?; Ronald J. Gilson and Reinier Kraakman
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