This paper analyses the impact of the EU market abuse law on share repurchases. We...

This paper discusses whether the forthcoming reform of market abuse law, as proposed by the...

Soon we can expect a new type of company: the European Private Company (Societas Privata...

This paper examines the evolution of the duty to disclose major share ownership across countries....

This paper presents citation statistics on decisions of the Court of Appeal of England and...

“Comparative law and finance” codes how well the laws of different countries protect certain interests,...

Has there been convergence of corporate governance systems? There has been a great deal of...

How different are common law and civil law legal systems? This question has occupied legal...

Much attention has been devoted in recent literature to the claim that a country’s ‘legal...

The legal origins hypothesis is one of the most important and influential ideas to emerge...

Regulatory competition in company law has been extensively debated in the last few decades, but...

We test the law matters and legal origin claims using newly created datasets measuring legal...

The Draft Regulation on a European Private Company (Societas Privata Europaea, SPE), which was proposed...

How does the law address topics such as the sale an trade of securities and...

According to the 19th century jurist Julius von Kirchmann "law is like a wanderer in...

In the last two years three important comparative law handbooks have been published (“Comparative Law:...

This Article contains chapters 8-9, 11-13, and the Conclusion of a World Bank-sponsored Report, prepared...

For outsiders it is often difficult to understand what the role of academic lawyers is....

This article analyzes how shareholder protection has developed in 20 countries from 1995 to 2005....

Since the law on market abuse in EU countries has in recent years become predominantly...

Previous research often emphasised the similarity of shareholder protection in common law (or English legal...

This Article is an excerpt from a World Bank-sponsored Report, prepared in December 2006, to...

Law and finance scholars have increasingly relied upon comparative law in the last few years....

In SEVIC, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) held that the refusal of a national...

In this paper we build a new and meaningful shareholder protection index for five countries...

Today, many law journals can be accessed electronically. This is not only convenient but it...

Following the 1900 congress in Paris, the beginning of the 20th century saw comparative law...

We present evidence on the evolution of labour law in five countries (the UK, USA,...

Law has to be able to respond to new or changing circumstances. This adaptability of...

Since the beginning of the new century harmonisation of company law has once again been...

The objective of this note is to analyze the importance of three joint cases -...

In recent times comparative law has been increasingly pursued in a numerical way (e.g., La...

This article discusses the plans of the European Commission to harmonise shareholder rights in the...

In 2005 the European Union adopted a Directive on Cross-Border Mergers, which Member States have...

After 30 years of debate, the law on the European Company (Societas Europaea, SE) has...

The articles by La Porta et al. are some of the most-cited pieces in economics,...

This article discusses the recent reform of Austrian commercial law. This reform will replace the...

The rules on conflict of laws are the cornerstones of the new European Directive on...

According to Article 2:211 of the Principles of European Contract Law, the rules on the...

This article considers whether a contract-breaker is obliged not only to pay compensatory damages but...

In this article it is submitted that European company law will change remarkably. The conflict-of-law...

This article deals with the question of whether a spouse who grants a security for...

It is often said that a company should be expected to trouble itself with nothing...

The European Directive on a Community Framework for Electronic Signatures is an essential and important...

On the one hand, it can be argued that the increasing economic and political interdependence...

When economists try to measure legal rules and institutions their approach is often a “just...

Inspired by Alan Weisman’s book “The World Without Us” (2007) I analyse the thought experiment...

This study examines the financial risks posed by energy and environmental markets and how these...

Today, according to Anne Marie Slaugther, "judges see each other not only as servants and...

Should courts consider cases from other jurisdictions? The use of foreign law precedent has sparked...

When directors are in breach of their duties, it seems natural to give shareholders a...

This Report was prepared, with support by the World Bank, for the Russian Center for...