Law and Finance

Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

1976 • 62,465 citations

The Cost of Capital, Corporation Finance and the Theory of Investment

1958 • 15,488 citations

Legal Determinants of External Finance

1997 • 9,511 citations

Finance and Growth: Schumpeter Might Be Right

1993 • 8,421 citations

Large Shareholders and Corporate Control

1986 • 8,353 citations

The Modern Corporation and Private Property

1933 • 7,939 citations

Management ownership and market valuation

1988 • 7,109 citations

Financial Dependence and Growth

1998 • 7,081 citations

What Do We Know about Capital Structure? Some Evidence from International Data

1995 • 6,521 citations

The Structure of Corporate Ownership: Causes and Consequences

1985 • 6,489 citations

INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: CROSS‐COUNTRY TESTS USING ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONAL MEASURES

1995 • 5,146 citations

Stock Markets, Banks, and Economic Growth

1998 • 3,397 citations

Firms, Contracts, and Financial Structure

1995 • 3,147 citations

A New Data Set Measuring Income Inequality

1996 • 3,123 citations

Why Do Companies Go Public? An Empirical Analysis

1998 • 1,894 citations

An introduction to comparative law

1977 • 1,397 citations

One share-one vote and the market for corporate control

1988 • 1,377 citations

The Economic Structure of Corporate Law.

1993 • 1,308 citations

Legal Transplants: An Approach to Comparative Law

1975 • 1,119 citations

The Value of the Voting Right: A Study of the Milan Stock Exchange Experience

1994 • 1,027 citations

Appointments of outsiders to Japanese boards: Determinants and implications for managers

1994 • 976 citations

The Legal Environment, Banks, and Long-Run Economic Growth

1998 • 787 citations

Corporate governance

1988 • 683 citations

What Determines the Value of Corporate Votes?

1995 • 622 citations

Strong Managers, Weak Owners: The Political Roots of American Corporate Finance.

1995 • 594 citations

The governance structure of the Japanese financial keiretsu

1994 • 437 citations

The civil law tradition;: An introduction to the legal systems of Western Europe and Latin America

1969 • 402 citations

The Hidden Virtues of Chapter 11: An Overview of the Law and Economics of Financially Distressed Firms

1997 • 299 citations

Measuring Income Inequality.

1983 • 285 citations

Efficient and Inefficient Sales of Corporate Control

1994 • 254 citations

Measuring Income Inequality: A New Data-Base

1996 • 231 citations

Economic Evaluation of Voting Power of Common Stock

1983 • 187 citations

Toward a theory of legal reform

1996 • 166 citations

Foreign law : current sources of codes and basic legislation in jurisdictions of the world

1989 • 129 citations

Universal Banking and the Performance of German Firms

1996 • 129 citations

Comparative legal traditions : text, materials, and cases on the civil and common law traditions, with special reference to French, German, English, and European law

1994 • 52 citations

Guide to international commerce law

1981 • 12 citations