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New Series: The Law and Finance of Private Equity and Venture Capital

2 August 2023

Research Handbook on Comparative Corporate Governance

Comparative corporate governance has become a broad research field during the past decades. With the increasing internationalization of law and legal scholarship, the subject has seen a burgeoning volume of...

3 December 2020

Afra Afsharipour

Martin Gelter

The avoidance of related party transactions in insolvency

Transaction avoidance rules are widely thought to be an important tool in the regulation of related party transactions entered into by an insolvent or near insolvent firm. Such rules offer...

14 November 2018

Kristin van Zwieten

Twenty years of ‘Law and Finance’ – Time to take law seriously

Twenty years ago, the first of a series of tremendously influential papers on 'Law and Finance' was published by Rafael La Porta and his colleagues. By putting legal institutions...

Oxford Law Special Lecture Series - The Common Law and Finance: Perspectives from the Bench

It is now twenty years since the publication of La Porta et al’s “Law and Finance” paper in the Journal of Political Economy. Although the methodology used in...

29 October 2018

OBLB Editors

Shareholder Protection, Stock Markets and Cross-Border Mergers

How do we measure shareholder protection? For more than ten years, the Centre of Business Research (CBR) at the University of Cambridge has developed datasets on shareholder, creditor and...

After Brexit, is France Ready to Change its Approach to Law & Finance?

France has embarked on a major competition to benefit from Brexit and the weakening of London's financial center. President Emmanuel Macron, as well as Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and Economy...

12 October 2017

Sophie Vermeille

The Study of Political Institutions at the Centre of Financial Economics

In a recent survey of the literature on the political economy of finance (available here), we argue that understanding the evolution and functioning of financial systems cannot be...

3 October 2017

Thomas Lambert

Paolo Volpin

Can Regulators Prevent Corporate Scandals? What 200 Years of History Tell Us

Are regulatory interventions in financial markets delayed reactions to market failures, or can regulators pre-empt corporate misbehavior? Given the high economic and social costs associated with corporate scandals, and the...

German Corporate Law in the 20th Century

The German corporation (for the purposes of this post: “Aktiengesellschaft”) is known for its two-tier board system, employee codetermination on the level of the supervisory board, and minimum capital. With...

19 April 2017

Thilo Kuntz

New Series: The Law and Finance of Private Equity and Venture Capital

Research Handbook on Comparative Corporate Governance

The avoidance of related party transactions in insolvency

Twenty years of ‘Law and Finance’ – Time to take law seriously

Oxford Law Special Lecture Series - The Common Law and Finance: Perspectives from the Bench

Shareholder Protection, Stock Markets and Cross-Border Mergers

After Brexit, is France Ready to Change its Approach to Law & Finance?

The Study of Political Institutions at the Centre of Financial Economics

Can Regulators Prevent Corporate Scandals? What 200 Years of History Tell Us

German Corporate Law in the 20th Century

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