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Capitalist Stakeholders: Shareholder Stewardship in Switzerland

To understand shareholder stewardship in Switzerland, one must note a few idiosyncrasies. First, Switzerland is a grassroots society. This is evidenced by a tradition of devolving political authority to the...

10 January 2022

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Daniel Daeniker

Robo-Advisers and Investor Protection: A View from Switzerland

My recent article ‘An Examination into the Investor Protection Properties of Robo-Advisory Services in Switzerland’ investigates the extent to which information provided by Swiss-based robo advisers (RAs) on...

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Felix Mezzanotte

How Technology Disrupts Private Law: An Exploratory Study of California and Switzerland as Innovative Jurisdictions

2018 is the first year in history when more than half of the world’s population is online. Since its dawn, the Internet has changed many aspects of daily...

4 December 2018

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Catalina Goanta

Corporate Ownership and Innovation: Evidence from Switzerland

In an interview, when teased about his reckless, highly innovative and risky investments, Elon Musk replied ‘it's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control...

23 October 2017

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Massimiliano Vatiero

New Rules for Crowdfunding in Switzerland – A Reasonable Modernization that Raises Fundamental Questions

Until recently crowdfunding activities in Switzerland were severely restricted by banking regulations. An exuberant legal bank monopoly for the deposit taking business limited both the possibilities for project initiators to...

10 September 2017

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Learning from the Swiss Corporate Governance Exception

Swiss corporate governance, which according to legal origin theory should belong to a civil law system, is characterized by diffused corporate ownership, weak labour protection, and radical innovation, which resemble...

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Massimiliano Vatiero

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