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Shareholder Activism and Short-Termism

Corporate Governance as Privately-Ordered Public Policy: A Proposal

Are US markets becoming more short-term oriented? Evidence and implications of market discounting of firms, 1980-2013

The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership.Harvard Business Review 95, no. 3, Joseph L. Bower and S. Paine Lynn, May-June 2017

The American Prosperity Project. A Nonpartisan Framework for Long-Term Investment, The Aspen Institute, Business and Society Program, 2016

Ending Short-Termism: An Investment Agenda for Growth , The Roosevelt Inst., Financialization Project, Mike Konczal, J.W. Mason, & Amanda Page-Hoongrajok, 2015

Is Short-Term Behavior Jeopardizing the Future Prosperity of Business?, The Conference Board, 2015

Overcoming Short-termism: A Call for a More Responsible Approach to Investment, The Aspen Institute, Business and Society Program, 2009

The Case For and Against Activist Hedge Funds, IGOPP Institute for Governance, Yvan Allaire, 2015

Understanding Short-Termism: Questions and Consequences, The Roosevelt Inst., Financialization Project, J.W. Mason, 2015

Hedge Fund Activism and Long-Term Firm Value, Martijn Cremers et al., Nov. 19, 2015

The Game of 'Activist' Hedge Funds: Cui Bono? , Int'l J. of Disclosure and Governance, Yvan Allaire & Francois Dauphin, forthcoming, 2016

The Shareholder Value of Empowered Boards , 68 Stan. L. Rev. 67, Martijn Cremers & Simone Sepe, 2016

The Wolf at the Door: The Impact of Hedge Fund Activism on Corporate Governance , 1 Annals of Corp. Governance 1, John C. Coffee & Darius Palia, 2016

Yes, Short-Termism Really Is a Problem, Roger L. Martin, Harv. Bus. Rev., Oct. 9, 2015

Letter from Laurence D. Fink, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock, to CEOs, Feb. 1, 2016

Letter from Laurence D. Fink, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock, to Shareholders, Apr. 10, 2016

Evidence and Implications of Short-Termism in US Public Capital Markets: 1980-2013, Rachelle C. Sampson, Yuan Shi

Legal Personality and the Nature of Corporation

What is the Purpose of a Corporation?, Christopher Halburd, 2014

The World's Dumbest Idea, GMO White Paper, James Montier, 2014

Statement on Company Law, The Modern Corporation Project

The Problem of Corporate Purpose, The Brookings Inst., Issues in Governance Studies, Lynn Stout, 2012

Beyond Public and Private: Toward a Political Theory of the Corporation , 107 Am. Pol. Sci. Rev. 139, David Ciepley, 2013

The Legal Structure of the Firm , 1 Acct. Econ., & Law: A Convivium (Reuven S. Avi-Yonah, Yuri Biondi, Shyam Sunder eds.), Jean-Philippe Robé, 2011

The Shareholder Value Myth , Eur. Fin. Rev. Lynn Stout, April 30, 2013

Corporations and Innovation

Corporate Governance as Privately-Ordered Public Policy: A Proposal

Is U.S. Economic Growth Over: Faltering Innovation and the Six Headwinds, Ctr. for Econ. Pol'y Res., Robert J. Gordon, 2012

Understanding Short-Termism: Questions and Consequences, The Roosevelt Inst., Financialization Project, J.W. Mason, 2015

Profits Without Prosperity: Stock Buybacks Manipulate the Market and Leave Most Americans Worse Off, Harv. Bus. Rev., William Lazonick, Sept. 2014

The Corporation as Time Machine , Harv. L. Sch. F. on Corp. Governance and Fin. Reg., Lynn Stout, Mar. 25, 2015
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