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SSRN Top Tens for Corporate, Corporate Governance, and Securities Law

The current SSRN top tens for corporate, corporate governance, and securities law are after the jump.

Top 10 most-downloaded corporate law papers announced during the 60 day period ended July 18, 2006 (current ranking – previous ranking (number of downloads)):

1 – NR (124) The Case Against Mandatory Annual Director Elections and Shareholders’ Meetings  by William K. Sjostrom.

2 – 3 (117) The New Vote Buying: Empty Voting and Hidden (Morphable) Ownership  by Henry T.C. Hu & Bernard S. Black.

3 – 4 (98) Legal Origins and Modern Stock Markets  by Mark J. Roe.

4 – NR (79) The Sarbanes-Oxley Debacle: What We’ve Learned; How to Fix It  by Henry N. Butler & Larry E. Ribstein.

5 – 7 (61) A Research Agenda for International Corporate Social Responsibility  by Frans Paul van der Putten.

6 - NR (50) Intellectual Capital Reporting: A User Perspective  by Suresh Cuganesan, Richard Petty & Nigel Finch.

7 – 8 (46) Old Rule, New Theory: Revising the Personal Benefit Requirement for Tipper/Tippee Liability Under the Misappropriation Theory of Insider Trading  by David T. Cohen.

8 – 9 (42) Spaces and Places: A Systems Theory Approach to Regulatory Competition in European Company Law  by Peer Zumbansen.

9 – 10 (41) The Strategy of Boilerplate  by Robert B. Ahdieh.

10 – NR (29) Did Adoption of Forward-Looking Valuation Methods Improve Valuation Accuracy in Shareholder Litigation?  by Feng Chen, Kenton K. Yee & Yong Keun Yoo.

Top 10 most-downloaded corporate governance law papers announced during the 60 day period ended July 18, 2006 (current ranking – previous ranking (number of downloads)):

1 – 1 (512) The Effect of Internal Control Deficiencies on Firm Risk and Cost of Equity Capital  by Hollis Ashbaugh-Skaife, Daniel W. Collins, William R. Kinney, Jr. & Ryan LaFond.

2 – 2 (272) The Corporate Governance Industry  by Paul Rose.

3 – 3 (230) The Merchant-Bank Struggle for Control of Payment Systems  by Adam Levitin.

4 – 5 (166) Does the Sox Definition of an Accounting Expert Matter? The Association between Audit Committee Director’s Expertise and Conservatism  by Gopal V. Krishnan & Gnanakumar Visvanathan.

5 – 8 (150) Too Many Bells? Too Many Whistles? Corporate Governance in the Post Enron, Post WorldCom Era  by Douglas M. Branson.

6 – 10 (142) Corporate Mobility and the Costs of Regulation  by Marco Becht, Colin Mayer & Hannes F. Wagner.

7 – 9 (134) The Dating Game: Do Managers Designate Option Grant Dates to Increase Their Compensation?  by M.P. Narayanan & Hasan Nejat Seyhun.

8 – NR (124) The Case Against Mandatory Annual Director Elections and Shareholders’ Meetings  by William K. Sjostrom.

9 – NR (118) The New Vote Buying: Empty Voting and Hidden (Morphable) Ownership  by Henry T.C. Hu & Bernard S. Black.

10 – NR (109) Timing of Employee Stock Option Exercises and the Valuation of Stock Option Expense  by Chris Armstrong, Alan D. Jagolinzer & David F. Larcker.

Top 10 most-downloaded securities law papers announced during the 60 day period ended July 18, 2006 (current ranking – previous ranking (total number of downloads)):

1 – 1 (303) Accounting Quality: International Accounting Standards and US GAAP  by Mary E. Barth, Wayne R. Landsman, Mark H. Lang &  Christopher D. Williams.

2 – 2 (166) Does the Sox Definition of an Accounting Expert Matter? The Association between Audit Committee Director’s Expertise and Conservatism  by Gopal V. Krishnan & Gnanakumar Visvanathan.

3 – 3 (150) Too Many Bells? Too Many Whistles? Corporate Governance in the Post Enron, Post WorldCom Era  by Douglas M. Branson.

4 – NR (124) The Case Against Mandatory Annual Director Elections and Shareholders’ Meetings  by William K. Sjostrom.

5 – 4T (118) The New Vote Buying: Empty Voting and Hidden (Morphable) Ownership  by Henry T.C. Hu & Bernard S. Black.

6 – 4T (100) The Limits of Enron: Counterparty Risk in Bankruptcy Claims Trading  by Adam Levitin.

7 – 7 (98) Legal Origins and Modern Stock Markets  by Mark J. Roe.

8 – 6 (84) Private Standards, Public Governance: A New Look at the Financial Accounting Standards Board  by William W. Bratton.

9 – 8 (81) Credit Derivatives & the Future of Chapter 11  by Stephen Lubben.

10 – NR (79) The Sarbanes-Oxley Debacle: What We’ve Learned; How to Fix It  by Henry N. Butler & Larry E. Ribstein.

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