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Green Gatekeepers

17 October 2024

Luca Enriques

Alessandro Romano

Andrew Tuch

Can Voluntary Carbon Markets Be Fixed?

Shadow Trading, Corporate Investments, and Macroeconomic Risk

Dual Class Shares in the Age of Common Ownership

Mark Zuckerberg has virtually all his personal wealth invested in Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook). His incentives as controller of Meta are thus clear: maximize firm value and private benefits of...

Rewiring Corporate Law for an Interconnected World

The traditional view of corporate law can be summarized as follows. Shareholders have a single well-defined objective, namely ‘to maximize the net present value of the firm’s earnings per dollar...

4 November 2021

Luca Enriques

Alessandro Romano

Extended Shareholder Liability for Systemically Important Financial Institutions

The default of a systemically important financial institution (SIFI) can trigger a cascade of defaults and ultimately impose enormous losses on the economy. Consequently, authorities generally bail out distressed SIFIs....

A Quantitative Study of Spillovers between Oil Price and Renewable Energy Sources Stock Prices: Lessons for Investors and Policymakers

Meeting the growing global demand for energy is a crucial challenge of this century, as it poses severe climate and energy security-related risks. Investments in renewable...

Network-Sensitive Financial Regulation

Shocks that hit part of the financial system, such as the subprime mortgage market in 2007, can propagate and amplify through the complex network of interconnections among financial and non-financial...

Horizontal Shareholding: The End of Markets and the Rise of Networks

In many markets, large institutional investors like BlackRock and Vanguard own significant stakes in most, if not all, horizontal competitors. Legal scholars have suggested that this...

6 December 2018

Alessandro Romano

Institutional Investor Voting Behavior: A Network Theory Perspective

It is received wisdom that institutional investors have insufficient incentives to cast informed votes because they compete on relative performance. If BlackRock invests in the monitoring of one of its...

7 May 2018

Luca Enriques

Alessandro Romano

Green Gatekeepers

Can Voluntary Carbon Markets Be Fixed?

Shadow Trading, Corporate Investments, and Macroeconomic Risk

Dual Class Shares in the Age of Common Ownership

Rewiring Corporate Law for an Interconnected World

Extended Shareholder Liability for Systemically Important Financial Institutions

A Quantitative Study of Spillovers between Oil Price and Renewable Energy Sources Stock Prices: Lessons for Investors and Policymakers

Network-Sensitive Financial Regulation

Horizontal Shareholding: The End of Markets and the Rise of Networks

Institutional Investor Voting Behavior: A Network Theory Perspective

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