Fellows
Current Fellows:
Current Fellows researching topics related to the Program on Corporate Governance include:
Jonathan Borowsky
Research:
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Organizing mutual funds or repos with a built-in auction mechanism. |
Damien Cannavan
David Daniels
Research:
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Arguing for a compromise solution to the debate about reducing the disclosure window in Section 13(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. |
Elisabeth de Fontenay
Research:
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Interest group behavior in corporate voting reform |
Brandon Gold
Research:
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Takeover defenses in IPOs |
Kobi Kastiel
Research:
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Unfriendly IPO’s. |
Hao Liang
Yaron Nili
Research:
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Different models of shareholder activism: comparative and normative analysis |
Research:
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The interaction between corporate taxation and corporate governance. |
Silviu Pitis
Research:
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Managing incentives in the international arena. |
Adi Osofsky
Research:
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Philanthropic activities in bailed-out companies |
Dorothy Shapiro
Research:
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A law and economics analysis of Judge Rakoff’s decision to block a settlement between SEC and Citigroup. |
Nitzan Shilon
Research:
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Stock Ownership Policies — Rhetoric and Reality |
Research:
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Corporate governance and taxation |
Past Fellows:
Given Imaging Limited
Olin Fellow, 1991-92
Research: An Executive Duty to Cause Corporations to be adequately Capitalized
University of Virginia
Research: Price considerations in state competition over corporate charters
University of Michigan Law School
Olin Fellow, 1997-2001
Research: A Comparative Empirical Investigation of Agency and Market Theories of Insider Trading, John M. Olin Discussion Paper No. 264 (September 1999).
"Do Insider Trading Laws Matter? Some Preliminary Comparative Evidence", 7 Amerian Law and Economics Review (2005), pp. 144-183.
University of Chicago Law School
Olin Fellow, 1989-90
John J. Bu
Goldman Sachs and Company
Olin Fellow, 1989-1990
Research: Distress-Contingent Convertible Bonds: An Alternative for Restructured Troubled Companies, 104 Harvard Law Review, No. 8 (June 1991), pp. 1857-1877.
New York University School of Law
Considine Fellow, 2008-2009
Research: Consumer biases and firm ownership
Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Business, Law & Technology
Olin Fellow, 1993-94
Research: Economic Aspects of Locked Control Types in Corporate Law
Goodwin Proctor LLP
Olin Fellow, 2005-06
Research: Getting to the Truth of the Matter: Revising the TILA Disclosure Scheme to Better Protect Customers
Camara & Sibley
Olin Fellow, 2003-2004
Research: Institutional shareholder activism in corporate governance: risk incentive effect of stock options on senior management
Erik Caspersen
Olin Fellow, 1995-96
Research: Criminal Liability for Management Opportunism: A Superior Approach to Regulating Tender Offer Defenses
New York University School of Law
Olin Fellow, 1992-94
Research: Investor Liability: Financial Innovations in the Regulatory State and The Coming Revolution in Corporate Law, 107 Harvard Law Review, No. 8 (June 1994), pp. 1941-1958.
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Olin Fellow, 1991-92
Research: Secondary Liability of Professionals Under the Securities Laws
Volovelsky Dinstein Sneh & Co.
Olin Fellow, 1991-92
Research: The Fifth Stage of Capitalism
Tijana Dvornic
Olin Fellow, Spring 2007 (2007-08)
Research: Tax exempt organizations, hospitals
Aryeh Falk
McKinsey & Company, Inc.
Olin Fellow, 1991-92
Research: Insider Trading in Junk Bonds; subsequently published in 105 Harvard Law Review, No. 7 (1992), pp. 1720-40.
Harvard Law School
Olin Fellow, 1994-95
Research: Creating a Market for Corporate Voting Rights
Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School
Olin Fellow, 2002-2005
Research: Empirical corporate law and finance projects relating to various governance issues
Harvard Law School
Olin Fellow, 1990-93
Research: LBOs, Fraudulent Conveyance Law, and Efficient Transfers of Corporate Control
Research: SEC Enforcement against broker-dealer firms: domestic and international
Rishi Ganti
Security & Exchange Commission
Olin Fellow, 1997-2000
Research: Do Ticker Reassignments Cause Investor Confusion?
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Visiting Fellow, Program on Corporate Governance, 2003
Simpson Thacher
Olin Fellow, 2005-06
Research: Reconceptualizing Traditional Tax Analysis
Fordham University School of Law
Olin Fellow, 2003-2004
Research: Challenging the Shareholder Primacy Norm: Shareholders vs. Stakeholders
Benjamin Gerber
Olin Fellow, 2005-06
Research: Unfettering Innocuous Benefits of Management Interlocks: Towards an Optimal Definition of "Competitors" Under Section 8 of the Clayton Act
New York University School of Law
Olin Fellow, 2000-2003
Research: Misreporting corporate performance; the costs of permitting managers to sell shares
Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University
Olin Fellow, 1994-95
Research: Partial Ownership as a Strategic Variable to Facilitate Tacit Collusion, Michigan Law Review (2000).
Yehonatan Givati
Olin Fellow, 2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09
Research: Law and Economics; Corporate Law
Tom Gole
Duke Law School
Olin Fellow, 1993-94
Research: The Globalization of the Legal Market and Its Effects on Discrimination (with Vivian Fu).
University of California at Berkeley
Olin Fellow, 1994-96
Research: National Laws, International Money: Securities Regulation in a Global Capital Market (with Stephen Choi), 65 Fordham Law Review (1997), pp. 1855.
Gross, Kleinhendler, Hodak, Berkman & Co.
Olin Fellow, 2001-2003
Research: Tracking Stock
Guy Halfteck
Olin Fellow, 2000-2003
Research: Securities class actions
Jeffrey Hall
Research:
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Privatization and government contracting |
Hebrew University
Olin Fellow, 1999-2001
Research: Gatekeeper liability
Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University
Olin Fellow, 1999-2001
Research: The Missing Link in the Corporate Takeover Literature or Why Would Similar Firms Adopt Different Anti-Takeover Mechanisms (at the IPO stage)?
Joung Hwang
Olin Fellow, 2000-01
Columbia Law School
Olin Fellow, 2003-2005
Research: Reducing the costs of monitoring regulatory compliance; the effects of Sarbanes-Oxley on systematic equity risk; the effects of short sales on shareholder voting rights
Harvard Law School
Olin Fellow, 1990-94
Research: Managerial Value Diversion and Shareholder Wealth (w/ L. Bebchuk), 15 Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, No. 2 (1999), pp. 487-502.
New York University School of Law
Olin Fellow, 1986-88
Research: A Framework for Analyzing Legal Policy Towards Proxy Contests (w/L. Bebchuk), 78 California Law Review (1990), pp. 1071-1135.
The University of Michigan Law School
Research: Better Early than Late: An Economic Analysis of the Timing of Disclosure of Preliminary Merger Negotiations.
Daniel Klaff
Olin Fellow, 2006-08
Research: Economic Explanations for the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation in the Context of Bankruptcy Law
Michael Komenda
Research: Economic efficiency and consistency of the current approach to civil penalty amounts by securities regulators
University of Connecticut School of Law
Fellow of the Program on Corporate Governance, 2011-2012
Research: Regulation of pension plan investment offerings under ERISA; the politics of federal government deficits
"Improving Retirement Savings Options for Employees", John M. Olin Fellows' Discussion Paper No. 42 (February 2012)
European Corporate Governance Institute
Olin Fellow, 1995-98
Research: International Diversity in Securities Regulation: Some Roadblocks on the Way to Convergence, 20 Cardoza Law Review, No. 1 (September 1998), pp. 227-285.
Harvard University
Olin Fellow, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08
Research: Social learning and the development of corporate law
Gordon College
Olin Fellow, 1989-90
Research: After the FIRREA: An Analysis of the Savings and Loan Industry After the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989, Harvard Olin Discussion Paper No. 71 (May 1990).
Haim Machluf
Research: The internal affairs doctrine
Jeffrey Manns
Research: Propoerty law and corporate law
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen, & Katz
Research: Forty Years of Charter Competition: A Race to Protect Directors from Liability?
Balaji Narain
Research: Disaggregation of firms, shareholder derivative suits, federal regulations
Ophir Nave
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen, & Katz
Olin Fellow, 2003-2004
Research: The Importance of Shareholder Votes in Takeover Law, Economic Analysis of Taking Law
Jim Naughton
Kellogg Business School, Northwestern University
Considine Fellow, 2007–2008, 2009–2010
Research: Securities fraud law and trading volume
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal
Olin Fellow, 1989-91
Research: Is Insider Trading Beneficial to the Stock Market?
Legal Economics, LLC
Olin Fellow, 2004-2005
Research: Stock returns and judicial decisions, how do they relate, what empirical evidence can be found
Vanderbilt Law School
Fellow of the Program on Corporate Governance, 2010-2012
"A Regulatory Design for Monetary Stability", John M. Olin Discussion Paper, No. 706 (September 2011)
"Reforming the Short-Term Funding Markets", John M. Olin Discussion Paper, No. 713 (May 2012)
Fellows of the Program on Corporate Governance
Matthew Schoenfeld
Research:
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Sovereign credit default swaps |
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Olin Fellow, 2006-07
Research: Did sunlight disinfect open market repurchases? An empirical study of false signaling since the 2003 SEC Disclosure Requirement
Holger Spamann
Harvard Law School
Olin Fellow, 2009-2011
Research:
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Derivatives & moral hazard in corporate finance |
Chicago Booth
Olin Fellow, 1988-1991
Research: Do Short-Term Managerial Objectives Lead to Under- or Over-Investment in Long-Term Projects? (w/L. Bebchuk), 48 Journal of Finance, No. 2 (June 1993), pp. 719-729.
Harvard Law School
Olin Fellow, 1997-98
Research: Using Capital Cash Flows to Value Dissenters' Shares in Appraisal Proceedings, 111 Harvard Law Review No. 7 (May, 1998), pp. 2099-2116.
Shaud Tavakoli
Research:
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Impact of consumer tax credits on affected companies during 08-10 economic downturn |
University of Notre Dame
Olin Fellow, 1998-2003
Research: The Behavioral Law and Economics of Corporate Governance and Control
Washington University School of Law
Olin Fellow, 2008-2012
Research: Professional regulation of investment bankers
Anthony Uccellini
Olin Fellow, 2006-07
Research: Mergers and acquisitions, disclosure, corporate governance, Sarbanes-Oxley, regulation
University of Virginia Law School
Olin Fellow, Summer 2008 (2007-08)
Research: The rise of hedge funds: an evaluation of regulatory concerns and international governance proposals
George Mason University School of Law
Olin Fellow, 2004-2005
Research: Reform in the mutual fund industry through changes in SEC regulation and its effects on fund return
Boston University School of Law
Olin Fellow, 1997-98
Research: Rethinking Rights of First Refusal, 5 Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance No. 1 (Spring 1999), pp. 1-58.
Jeremy Weisman
Fellows of the Program on Corporate Governance
Charles C.Y. Wang
Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
Olin Fellow, 1991-92, 2004-2005
Research 2004-05: Intersections between capital markets regulation and coporate governance, focusing on share supplydynamics and pricing in the areas of short selling and initial public offerings.
Research 1991-92: Government Intervention and Regulation in Emerging Stock Markets: A Case Study of the Korean Stock Exchange
