Oxford handbook of corporate law and governance

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From Corporate Law to Corporate Governance / Ronald J. Gilson -- The State of State Competition for Incorporations / Marcel Kahan -- The (3z(BCorporate Contract(3y(B Today / Michael Klausner -- Culture and Law in Corporate Governance / Amir N. Licht -- Accounting and Financial Reporting: Global Aspirations, Local Realities / Lawrence A. Cunningham -- The Benefits and Costs of Indices in Empirical Corporate Governance Research / Allen Ferrell -- A Behavioral Perspective on Corporate Law and Corporate Governance / Jaap Winter -- Taxonomies and Leximetrics / Mathias M. Siems -- Convergence and Persistence in Corporate Law and Governance / Jeffrey N. Gordon -- The Board of Directors / Stephen M. Bainbridge -- Executive Remuneration / Guido Ferrarini, Maria Cristina Ungureanu -- Institutional Investors in Corporate Governance / Edward Rock -- Shareholder Activism: A Renaissance / Wolf-Georg Ringe -- Majority Control and Minority Protection / Zohar Goshen, Assaf Hamdani -- Debt and Corporate Governance / Charles K. Whitehead -- Related Party Transactions / Luca Enriques -- Control Shifts via Share Acquisition Contracts with Shareholders (Takeovers) / Paul Davies -- Mergers, Acquisitions, and Restructuring: Types, Regulation, and Patterns of Practice / John C. Coates IV -- External and Internal Asset Partitioning: Corporations and their Subsidiaries / Henry Hansmann, Richard Squire -- Groups of Companies: A Comparative Study of the Economics, Law, and Regulation of Corporate Groups / Klaus J. Hopt -- Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance / Cynthia A. Williams -- Western versus Asian Laws on Corporate Governance: The Role of Enforcement in International Convergence / Hideki Kanda -- Corporate Governance in Emerging Markets / Mariana Pargendler -- The Rise of Foreign Ownership and Corporate Governance / Merritt B. Fox -- Governance by Institutional Investors in a Stakeholder World / Gerard Hertig -- New Metrics for Corporate Governance: Shifting Strategies in an Aging IPO Market / Erik P.M. Vermeulen -- Corporate Law and Self-Regulation / David Kershaw -- The Evolution in the U.S. of Private Enforcement via Litigation and Monitoring Techniques: Are There Lessons for Germany? / James D. Cox, Randall S. Thomas -- Private and Public Enforcement of Securities Regulation / Howell E. Jackson, Jeffery Y. Zhang -- Corporate Short-Termism: In the Boardroom and in the Courtroom / Mark J. Roe -- Corporate Litigation in Specialized Business Courts / Joseph A. McCahery, F. Alexander de Roode -- Comparative Corporate Insolvency Law / Horst Eidenm�uller -- Corporate Governance and Employment Relations / Zoe Adams, Simon Deakin -- Corporate Governance, Capital Markets, and Securities Law / A. C. Pritchard -- Vertical and Horizontal Problems in Financial Regulation and Corporate Governance / Jonathan R. Macey, Maureen O'Hara -- Tax and Corporate Governance: The Influence of Tax on Managerial Agency Costs / David M. Schizer -- Bank Governance / John Armour -- Empirical Studies of Corporate Law and Governance: Some Steps Forward and Some Steps Not / Michael Klausner -- Comparative Corporate Governance in Closely Held Corporations / Holger Fleischer -- Corporate Governance and Its Political Economy / Mark J. Roe, Massimiliano Vatiero -- The Governance Ecology of China's State-Owned Enterprises / Curtis J. Milhaupt -- Public Enforcement: Criminal versus Civil / Amanda M. Rose -- The Compliance Function: An Overview / Geoffrey Parsons Miller.

Corporate law and governance are at the forefront of regulatory activities worldwide, and subject to increasing public attention in the wake of the global financial crisis. Comprehensively referencing the key debates, this handbook provides a much-needed framework for understanding the aims and methods of legal research in the field.