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    • The Institutions of Corporate Governance 

      Roe, Mark J. (2004)
      In this review piece, I outline the institutions of corporate governance decision-making in the large public firm in the wealthy West. By corporate governance, I mean the relationships at the top of the firm - the board ...
    • Is Delaware's Corporate Law Too Big to Fail? 

      Roe, Mark J. (Brooklyn Law School, 2008)
      An enduring inquiry for American corporate law scholars is why the small state of Delaware dominates corporate chartering in the United States. Several theories explain the result. I add another partial explanation: size ...
    • Juries and the Political Economy of Legal Origin 

      Roe, Mark J. (San Diego [etc.] Academic Press, 2007)
      Legal origin has been brought forward as a key influence on modern finance, because common law institutions protect investors better than do civil law institutions, it is claimed. These institutional differences are said, ...
    • Legal Origin and Modern Stock Markets 

      Roe, Mark J. (Harvard University, Harvard Law School, 2006)
      Legal origin - civil vs. common law - is said in much modern economic work to determine the strength of financial markets and the structure of corporate ownership, even in the world''s richer nations. The main means are ...
    • Legal Origins and Modern Stock Markets 

      Roe, Mark J. (Ames Foundation at the Harvard Law School, The, 2006)
      Legal origin - civil vs. common law - is said in much modern economic work to determine the strength of financial markets and the structure of corporate ownership, even in the world's richer nations. The main means are ...
    • The Modern Corporation and Private Pensions 

      Roe, Mark J. (1993)
      No abstract provided.
    • Placing Election Bylaws on the Corporate Ballot 

      Bebchuk, Lucian Arye; Ferrell, Frank A.; Kraakman, Reinier H.; Roe, Mark J.; Subramanian, Guhan (2005)
      This piece provides our amicus curiae brief in the case of American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees Pension Plan v. American International Group, which is now under consideration by the Second Circuit ...
    • Political Elements in the Creation of a Mutual Fund Industry 

      Roe, Mark J. (University of Pennsylvania, 1991)
      No abstract provided.
    • Political Instability: Effects on Financial Development, Roots in the Severity of Economic Inequality 

      Roe, Mark J.; Siegel, Jordan (Academic Press, 2011)
      We here bring forward strong evidence that political instability impedes financial development, with its variation a primary determinant of differences in financial development around the world. As such, it needs to be ...
    • Political Instability: Its Effects on Financial Development, Its Roots in the Severity of Economic Inequality 

      Roe, Mark J.; Siegel, Jordan (2009)
      Political instability impedes financial development and is a primary determinant of differences in financial development around the world. Four conventional measures of national political instability — Alesina and Perotti’s ...
    • Public and Private Enforcement of Securities Laws: Resource-Based Evidence 

      Roe, Mark J.; Jackson, Howell Edmunds (Simon Business School. University of Rochester., 2009)
      Ascertaining which enforcement mechanisms work to protect investors has been both a focus of recent work in academic finance and an issue for policy-making at international development agencies. According to recent academic ...
    • Restructuring Failed Financial Firms in Bankruptcy: Selling Lehman’s Derivatives Portfolio 

      Roe, Mark J.; Adams, Stephen (Harvard John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business, 2014)
      Lehman Brothers’ failure and bankruptcy is widely thought to have deepened the 2008 financial crisis whose negative effects the real economy is still experiencing. Yet, while financial regulation has changed in hopes of ...
    • Rolling Back the Repo Safe Harbors 

      Morrison, Edward R.; Roe, Mark J.; Sontchi, Christopher S. (Harvard John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business, 2014)
      Recent decades have seen substantial expansion in exemptions from the Bankruptcy Code’s normal operation for repurchase agreements. These repos, which are equivalent to very short-term (often one-day) secured loans, are ...
    • The Shareholder Wealth Maximation Norm and Industrial Organizations 

      Roe, Mark J. (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001)
      Industrial organization affects the relative effectiveness of the shareholder wealth maximization norm in maximizing total social wealth. In nations where product markets are not strongly competitive, a strong shareholder ...
    • The Shareholder Wealth Maximization Norm and Industrial Organization 

      Roe, Mark J. (University of Pennsylvania, 2001)
      Industrial organization affects the relative effectiveness of the shareholder wealth maximization norm in maximizing total social wealth. In nations where product markets are not strongly competitive, a strong shareholder ...
    • A Spatial Representation of Delaware-Washington Interaction in Corporate Lawmaking 

      Roe, Mark J. (Harvard John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business, 2012)
      Delaware and Washington interact in making corporate law. In prior work I showed how Delaware corporate law can be, and often is, confined by federal action. Sometimes Washington acts and preempts the field, constitutionally ...