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Dis-Attribution Fallacy and Directors’ Tort Liabilities

The issue of personal liability of directors in tort when acting for or on behalf of companies has arisen on a number of occasions before the courts in the UK...

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Women on Boards: The Superheroes of Tomorrow?

Between 2008 and 2015 32 countries implemented 42 boardroom gender diversity policies in the form of legal quotas for listed or state-owned firms, governance code amendments, and disclosure requirements. Most...

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Why Most Boards Fail

A Stigler Center panel debate examines the impact of activist shareholders and the role of dissenting board members.Corporate governance has seen some substantial reforms in the past decade....

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Asher Schechter

Information Disclosure and Insider Trading Around Board Meetings

My new paper (available here) features a novel dataset of firms’ regular board meeting schedules, hand-collected from corporate by-laws. Corporate by-laws include a provision about when and where...

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In Search of the Shareholder-Manager Balance of Power

The modern corporate form owes its success as much to the separation of management from shareholders, and the imposition of fiduciary obligations on managers (rather than on shareholders), as it...

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Razeen Sappideen

A Deeply Flawed CFA Institute Report on Shareholder Empowerment

This post by Bernard S. Sharfman (Adjunct Professor of Business Law at the George Mason University School of Business) and R.J. Lehmann (Co-Founder of the R Street Institute)...

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Bernard S. Sharfman

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