The separation of control and ownership – the ability of a small group effectively to control a company though holding a minority of its cash flow rights – is common throughout the world, but also is commonly decried. The control group, it is thought, will use its position to consume...

There is much we do not understand about the “location” of innovation: the confluence, for a particular innovation, of the technology associated with the innovation, the innovating firm's size and organizational structure, and the financial contracting that supports the innovation. This...

Explores the strong link between the venture capital (VC) market and the stock market-centered capital market. Contrasts this with the bank centered capital markets of such countries as Germany and Japan, which allot more firm control to banks. The United States has a strong venture capital...

Scholars have long debated the role for courts with respect to governmental action that responds to crisis. Most of the crises analyzed, however, are exogenous to the political process; the courts' role in response to politically endogenous crises has received less attention. We evaluate the...

Takeover regulation should neither hamper nor promote takeovers, but instead allow individual companies to decide the contestability of their control. Based on this premise, we advocate a takeover law exclusively made of default and menu rules supporting an effective choice of the takeover...