Most cited papers in Corporate Insolvency and Governance
What are the most cited papers in Corporate Insolvency and Governance?
The most cited paper in Corporate Insolvency and Governance is "Law and Finance" (Rafael La Porta, Florencio López‐de‐Silanes, Andrei Shleifer et al., 1998), with 18,396 citations. Next come "Enjoying the Quiet Life? Corporate Governance and Managerial Preferences" (4,001) and "Stewardship Theory or Agency Theory: CEO Governance and Shareholder Returns" (3,570).
Showing 50 of 96 papers. Every paper with more than 364 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Law and Finance Rafael La Porta, Florencio López‐de‐Silanes, Andrei Shleifer et al. · Journal of Political Economy | Dec 1998 | 18,396 |
| 2 | Enjoying the Quiet Life? Corporate Governance and Managerial Preferences Marianne Bertrand, Sendhil Mullainathan · Journal of Political Economy | 23 Sep 2003 | 4,001 |
| 3 | Stewardship Theory or Agency Theory: CEO Governance and Shareholder Returns Lex Donaldson, James H. Davis · Australian Journal of Management | Jun 1991 | 3,570 |
| 4 | The Role of Boards of Directors in Corporate Governance: A Conceptual Framework and Survey Renée B. Adams, Benjamin E. Hermalin, Michael S. Weisbach · Journal of Economic Literature | Mar 2010 | 2,451 |
| 5 | A Survey of Corporate Governance Andrei Shleifer, Robert W. Vishny · The Journal of Finance | Jun 1997 | 2,281 |
| 6 | Corporate Governance and the Board of Directors: Performance Effects of Changes in Board Composition Barry D. Baysinger, Henry N. Butler · The Journal of Law Economics and Organization | 1985 | 1,773 |
| 7 | The Modern Industrial Revolution, Exit, and the Failure of Internal Control Systems Michael C. Jensen · SSRN Electronic Journal | 1999 | 1,737 |
| 8 | Eclipse of the Public Corporation Michael C. Jensen · SSRN Electronic Journal | 1999 | 1,725 |
| 9 | Tunneling through intercorporate loans: The China experience☆ Guohua Jiang, Charles M.C. Lee, Heng Yue · Journal of Financial Economics | 11 May 2010 | 1,654 |
| 10 | Too Busy to Mind the Business? Monitoring by Directors with Multiple Board Appointments Stephen P. Ferris, Murali Jagannathan, Adam C. Pritchard · The Journal of Finance | 6 May 2003 | 1,535 |
| 11 | Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation Lucian A. Bebchuk, Jesse M. Fried, David I. Walker · The University of Chicago Law Review | 2002 | 1,488 |
| 12 | Corporate governance and board effectiveness Kose John, Lemma W. Senbet · Journal of Banking & Finance | May 1998 | 1,365 |
| 13 | Lending Relationships and Loan Contract Terms Sreedhar T. Bharath, Sandeep Dahiya, Anthony Saunders et al. · Review of Financial Studies | 7 Oct 2009 | 1,300 |
| 14 | Investor Protection and Corporate Governance Rafael La Porta, Florencio López de Silanes, Andrei Shleifer et al. · SSRN Electronic Journal | 2000 | 1,300 |
| 15 | Corporate Governance: Some Theory and Implications Oliver Hart · The Economic Journal | May 1995 | 1,273 |
| 16 | Incomplete Contracts: Where do We Stand? Jean Tirole · Econometrica | Jul 1999 | 1,236 |
| 17 | Boards of Directors as an Endogenously Determined Institution: A Survey of the Economic Literature Benjamin E. Hermalin, Michael S. Weisbach · SSRN Electronic Journal | 2000 | 1,230 |
| 18 | An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamic Relation between Investment‐Grade Bonds and Credit Default Swaps Roberto Blanco, Simon Brennan, IAN W. MARSH · The Journal of Finance | 16 Sep 2005 | 1,220 |
| 19 | The Boundaries of the Firm Revisited Bengt R. Holmstrom, John Heath Roberts · The Journal of Economic Perspectives | Nov 1998 | 1,211 |
| 20 | The Market for Corporate Control: The Empirical Evidence Since 1980 Gregg A. Jarrell, James A. Brickley, Jeffry M. Netter · The Journal of Economic Perspectives | Feb 1988 | 1,150 |
| 21 | Boards of directors: A review and research agenda Jonathan Lewis Johnson · Journal of Management | 1996 | 1,150 |
| 22 | Troubled debt restructurings Stuart C. Gilson, Kose John, Larry H.P. Lang · Journal of Financial Economics | Oct 1990 | 1,137 |
| 23 | The Non-Correlation between Board Independence and Long-Term Firm Performance Sanjai Bhagat, Bernard S. Black · SSRN Electronic Journal | 1998 | 1,129 |
| 24 | Bankruptcy, boards, banks, and blockholders Stuart C. Gilson · Journal of Financial Economics | Oct 1990 | 1,129 |
| 25 | Default and Renegotiation: A Dynamic Model of Debt Oliver Hart, Jerome F. Moore · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Feb 1998 | 1,073 |
| 26 | Are Busy Boards Effective Monitors? Eliezer M. Fich, Anil Shivdasani · Corporate Governance | 2012 | 1,072 |
| 27 | Management turnover and financial distress Stuart C. Gilson · Journal of Financial Economics | Dec 1989 | 1,043 |
| 28 | Association between independent non-executive directors, family control and financial disclosures in Hong Kong Charles J.P. Chen, Bikki L. Jaggi · Journal of Accounting and Public Policy | Dec 2000 | 989 |
| 29 | Performance Changes Following Top Management Dismissals David J. Denis, Diane K. Denis · The Journal of Finance | Sep 1995 | 988 |
| 30 | Contagion and competitive intra-industry effects of bankruptcy announcements Larry H.P. Lang, René M. Stulz · Journal of Financial Economics | Aug 1992 | 971 |
| 31 | Debt Enforcement around the World Simeon Djankov, Oliver Hart, Caralee McLiesh et al. · Journal of Political Economy | Dec 2008 | 958 |
| 32 | Corporate governance in China: A modern perspective Fuxiu Jiang, Kenneth A. Kim · Journal of Corporate Finance | 22 Oct 2014 | 949 |
| 33 | The Choice Between Equity and Debt: An Empirical Study PAUL MARSH · The Journal of Finance | Mar 1982 | 819 |
| 34 | The consequences to managers for financial misrepresentation Jonathan M. Karpoff, D. Scott Lee, Gerald S. Martin · Journal of Financial Economics | 12 Mar 2008 | 816 |
| 35 | Financial distress, reorganization, and organizational efficiency Karen Hopper Wruck · Journal of Financial Economics | Oct 1990 | 798 |
| 36 | Creditor Control Rights, Corporate Governance, and Firm Value Greg Nini, David Chan Smith, Amir Sufi · Review of Financial Studies | 13 Mar 2012 | 795 |
| 37 | Creditor rights and corporate risk-taking Viral V. Acharya, Yakov Amihud, Lubomir P. Litov · Journal of Financial Economics | 2 Jun 2011 | 795 |
| 38 | The Uncertain Relationship between Board Composition and Firm Performance Sanjai Bhagat, Bernard S. Black | May 1999 | 792 |
| 39 | Renegotiation of financial contracts: Evidence from private credit agreements Michael R. Roberts, Amir Sufi · Journal of Financial Economics | 6 May 2009 | 756 |
| 40 | Does industry-wide distress affect defaulted firms? Evidence from creditor recoveries Viral V. Acharya, Sreedhar T. Bharath, Anand Srinivasan · Journal of Financial Economics | 19 Apr 2007 | 751 |
| 41 | The End of History for Corporate Law Henry B. Hansmann, Reinier H. Kraakman · SSRN Electronic Journal | 2000 | 745 |
| 42 | Corporate Governance and Merger Activity in the United States: Making Sense of the 1980s and 1990s Bengt R. Holmstrom, Steven Neil Kaplan · The Journal of Economic Perspectives | May 2001 | 739 |
| 43 | Bankruptcy resolution Lawrence A. Weiss · Journal of Financial Economics | Oct 1990 | 729 |
| 44 | The Costs of Bankruptcy: Chapter 7 Liquidation versus Chapter 11 Reorganization Arturo Bris, Ivo Welch, Ning Zhu · The Journal of Finance | 16 May 2006 | 724 |
| 45 | BOARD CONTROL, REMUNERATION COMMITTEES, AND TOP MANAGEMENT COMPENSATION. Martin J. Conyon, Simon I. Peck · Academy of Management Journal | Apr 1998 | 711 |
| 46 | Law and Finance in Transition Economies Katharina Pistor, Martin Raiser, Stanislaw Gelfer · Economics of Transition | Jul 2000 | 704 |
| 47 | Internal versus External Capital Markets Robert H. Gertner, David S. Scharfstein, Johannes Stein · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Nov 1994 | 686 |
| 48 | Control Rights and Capital Structure: An Empirical Investigation Michael R. Roberts, Amir Sufi · The Journal of Finance | 16 Jul 2009 | 652 |
| 49 | Bankruptcy Codes and Innovation Viral V. Acharya, Krishnamurthy V. Subramanian · Review of Financial Studies | 9 Apr 2009 | 615 |
| 50 | CORPORATE BOARD SIZE, COMPOSITION AND CORPORATE FAILURES IN RETAILING INDUSTRY[1] Rajeswararao Chaganti, Vijay Mahajan, Subhash Sharma · Journal of Management Studies | Jul 1985 | 601 |
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