This is the long-awaited third edition of this highly regarded comparative overview of
corporate law. This edition has been comprehensively revised and updated to reflect the …

Today, a California resident can incorporate her ship** business in Delaware, register her
ships in Panama, hire her employees from Hong Kong, place her earnings in an asset …

European corporate law and corporate governance are moving ahead beyond expectation.
Some British voices called this" a renaissance in the past decade." In December 2012, the …

The use of equity derivatives to conceal economic ownership of shares ('hidden ownership')
is increasingly drawing attention from the financial community, as is the exercise of voting …

Today, a California resident can incorporate her ship** business in Delaware, register her
ships in Panama, hire her employees from Hong Kong, place her earnings in an asset …

The creation of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has marked a major
step towards more integrated rulemaking and supervision in the European financial market …

The worldwide integration of capital markets continues to make progress and has resulted in
both issuers and investors being active in various markets on both sides of the Atlantic. In …

After the global financial crisis, systemic risk regulation has taken centre stage. Many
consider hedge funds a potential threat to financial stability. Regulating hedge funds …

Using a sample that provides unprecedented detail on foreign listings for 29 exchanges in
24 countries starting from the early 1980s, we show that although firms list in countries with …

This paper, which forms part of the first phase of the New Special Study of the Securities
Markets Project, explores how globalization has affected the operation of securities markets …