1. Corporate governance : theory and evidence -- 2. Private benefits of control -- 3. The law and economics of control powers : a theoretical framework -- 4. Legal distribution of corporate powers -- 5. How to cope with self-dealing -- 6. Regulation of related-party transactions : a comparative...

This article analyzes the last financial crisis focusing on the recurrent dynamics of externalities in banking. It shows that two major determinants of the crisis were the uncertainty of a new form of financial intermediation and the failure of regulation to cope with its externalities....

This chapter discusses the law and finance scholarship, from its beginning to its developments into legal research and policymaking. The key issue of the importance of law for finance is illustrated along with the controversy on the law matters proposition. The focus of the chapter, however, is...

This article presents a dynamic approach to liquidity based on uncertainty as conceptualized by Knight, developed in a theory of long-term expectations by Keynes, and applied to banking by Minsky. This perspective reveals that banks perform maturity transformation and create monetary liabilities...

This article analyzes the determinants of liquidity crises based on the dynamics of banking and finance under Knightian uncertainty. In this perspective, the facts of the global financial crisis seem to confirm Minsky's hypothesis of endogenous financial instability derived from Keynes's theory...

This paper investigates the determinants of liquidity crises based on the dynamics of banking and finance under uncertainty. The explanatory power of this framework is tested against the events of the global financial crisis. Despite limited availability of data that can proxy for uncertainty,...