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Working Papers

 

Investor Protection and Interest Group Politics
(with Zvika Neeman)
Harvard Law School Olin Discussion Paper No. 603, November 2007.

CEO Centrality
(with Martijn Cremers and Urs Peyer)
Harvard Law School Olin Discussion Paper No. 601, November 2007.

Consent and Exchange
(with Oren Bar-Gill)
Harvard Law School Olin Discussion Paper No. 590, July 2007.

Pay Distribution in the Top Executive Team
(with Martijn Cremers & Urs Peyer)
Harvard Law School Olin Discussion Paper No. 574, December 2006.
Noted in Forbes, Mar 12, 2007.

Lucky Directors
(with Yaniv Grinstein & Urs Peyer)
Harvard Law School Olin Discussion Paper No. 573, December 2006.
Articles about the study in Social Funds, The Guardian, Associated Press, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Financial Times, Investment News, Securities Law360, Red Herring, and Los Angeles Times.
Noted in USA Today, Mar 29, 2007, Forbes, Dec 18, 2006, MSNBC, Dec 18, 2006, and Houston Chronicle, Dec 18, 2006.
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Lucky CEOs
(with Yaniv Grinstein & Urs Peyer)
Harvard Law School Olin Discussion Paper No. 566, November 2006.
Articles about the study in Social Funds, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Associated Press, Boston Globe, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Financial Times, and Los Angeles Times.
Noted in Financial Times, Dec 10, 2006, Investment News, Nov 27, 2006, The Independent, Nov 18, 2006, Houston Chronicle, Dec 14, 2006, and Houston Chronicle, Dec 9, 2006.

On the Validity of Poison Pill By-laws
(with Jay W. Eisenhofer, Stuart M. Grant, Michael J. Barry, and P. Bradford deLeeuw)
Working Draft, June 2006.

Placing Election Bylaws on the Corporate Ballot
(with Allen Ferrell, Reinier Kraakman, Mark Roe, and Guhan Subramanian)

Firm Expansion and CEO Pay
(with Yaniv Grinstein)
Harvard Law School Olin Discussion Paper No. 533, November 2005

A Political Economy Model of Investor Protection
(with Zvika Neeman)
Incomplete Working Draft, July 2005.

What Matters in Corporate Governance?
(with Alma Cohen and Allen Ferrell)
Harvard Law School Olin Discussion Paper No. 491, September 2004.
Data on the Entrenchment Index 1990-2004
Articles about the study in Orange County Business Journal, Business Week, Dow Jones Wireservices, Board Alert, Pensions and Investments, TheStreet.com.
Study noted in CSRWire, Mar. 10, 2005.

The Business Roundtable's Untenable Case Against Shareholder Access
Harvard Olin Discussion Paper No. 516, 06/2005
Forthcoming, Shareholder Access to the Ballot (L. Bebchuk, ed., 2005)

Symposium on Corporate Elections
(Lucian Bebchuk, editor), 11/2003
Harvard Law School Olin Discussion Paper No. 448, November 2003

Misreporting Corporate Performance
(with Oren Bar-Gill)
Working Paper, November 2002.

Asymmetric Information and the Choice of Corporate Governance Arrangements
Working Paper, October 2002

Executive Compensation in America: Optimal Contracting or Extraction of Rents?
(with Jesse Fried and David Walker)
Harvard Olin Discussion Paper No. 366
Revised as "Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation" (2002)

Ex Ante Investments and Ex Post Externalities
Working Paper, December 2001

Takeover Bids vs. Proxy Fights in Contests for Corporate Control
(with Oliver Hart)
Harvard Olin Discussion Paper No. 336 (2001)
NBER Working Paper No.8633

A Rent Protection Theory of Corporate Ownership and Control
NBER Working Paper No. 7203 (1999)