"Contents" [2012] ELECD 454; in Hill, A. Claire; McDonnell, H. Brett (eds), "Research Handbook on the Economics of Corporate Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012)

Book Title: Research Handbook on the Economics of Corporate Law

Editor(s): Hill, A. Claire; McDonnell, H. Brett

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781848449589

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Contents


List of contributors vii

1. Introduction: The evolution of the economic analysis of corporate law 1
Claire A. Hill and Brett H. McDonnell

PART I CORPORATE CONSTITUENCIES

2. Director primacy 17
Stephen M. Bainbridge
3. Corporate law and the team production problem 33
Margaret M. Blair
4. The role of shareholders in the modern American corporation 52
D. Gordon Smith
5. Creditors and debt governance 68
Charles K. Whitehead
6. Employees and the boundaries of the corporation 85
Matthew T. Bodie
7. The role of the public interest in corporate law 106
Ian B. Lee

PART II INSIDER GOVERNANCE

8. Fiduciary duties: The emerging jurisprudence 133
Claire A. Hill and Brett H. McDonnell
9. Empirical studies of representative litigation 152
Randall S. Thomas and Robert B. Thompson
10. The elusive quest for director independence 170
Lisa M. Fairfax
11. `Low-cost' shareholder activism: A review of the evidence 192
Fabrizio Ferri
12. Takeover theory and the law and economics movement 216
Steven M. Davidoff
13. The law and economics of executive compensation: Theory and evidence 232
David I. Walker

PART III GATEKEEPERS

14. Transaction cost engineers, loophole engineers or gatekeepers:
The role of business lawyers after the financial meltdown 255
Richard W. Painter

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15. Credit rating agencies and regulatory reform 273
Aline Darbellay and Frank Partnoy
16. The influence of law and economics on law and accounting:
Two steps forward, one step back 298
Lawrence A. Cunningham
17. The ...