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Colin Mayer

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#108

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Management

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Colin Mayer's Degrees

Bachelors Philosophy, Politics, and Economics University of Oxford

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According to Wikipedia, Colin Peter Mayer was the Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. He was the Peter Moores Dean of the Saïd Business School between 2006 and 2011. He is a fellow of the British Academy, a fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He is a professorial fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, an honorary fellow of St. Anne's College, Oxford, and an honorary fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. He is an ordinary member of the Competition Appeal Tribunal and was a member of the UK government Natural Capital Committee. Over the last decade he has made the case against narrow shareholder value maximization by business firms and instead promoted the broader view of business purpose to promote economic and social well-being.

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Colin Mayer's Published Works

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New issues in corporate finance (1988) (825)
Ownership and Control of German Corporations (2000) (657)
Finance, Investment and Growth (1998) (633)
Returns to Shareholder Activism: Evidence from a Clinical Study of the Hermes U.K. Focus Fund (2008) (487)
Financial Systems, Corporate Finance and Economic Development (1990) (464)
Hostile takeovers and the correction of managerial failure (1996) (452)
Ownership: Evolution and Regulation (2006) (311)
Ownership and Control (1995) (295)
Corporate Governance, Competition and Performance (1997) (290)
Sources of Funds and Investment Activities of Venture Capital Funds: Evidence from Germany, Israel, Japan and the UK (2002) (287)
Who Disciplines Management in Poorly Performing Companies? (2001) (285)
CORPORATE OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL IN THE U.K., GERMANY, AND FRANCE (1996) (224)
Capital markets and corporate control: a study of France, Germany and the UK (1990) (215)
The Life Cycle of Family Ownership: International Evidence (2011) (213)
Structure and Performance: Global Interdependence of Stock Markets Around the Crash of October 1987 (1990) (203)
Means of Payment in Takeovers: Results for the United Kingdom and the United States (1988) (185)
Firm Commitment: Why the corporation is failing us and how to restore trust in it (2013) (160)
Capital markets and financial intermediation: List of figures (1993) (148)
Bank control, takeovers and corporate governance in Germany (1998) (128)
THE ASSESSMENT:CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND CORPORATE CONTROL (1992) (127)
A New Test of Capital Structure (2004) (127)
Financial Reform in Eastern Europe: Progress With the Wrong Model (1991) (122)
Mobile Banking and Financial Inclusion: The Regulatory Lessons (2011) (122)
The economic analysis of accounting profitability (1987) (115)
Regulatory Sanctions and Reputational Damage in Financial Markets (2010) (114)
Privatization and Economic Performance (1994) (113)
Sources of Funds and Investment Strategies of Venture Capital Funds: Evidence from Germany, Israel, Japan and the UK (2001) (111)
Financial Systems and Corporate Governance: A Review of the International Evidence (1998) (110)
The Origins of the German Corporation - Finance, Ownership and Control (2005) (108)
Principles of Financial Regulation (2016) (108)
The Financing and Governance of New Technologies (2004) (107)
Where Do Firms Incorporate? Deregulation and the Cost of Entry (2007) (103)
How Do Financial Systems Affect Economic Performance (1999) (102)
The Regulatory Challenge (1995) (99)
Corporation Tax, Finance and the Cost of Capital (1986) (94)
The privatisation process in France and the U.K (1988) (93)
European Financial Integration (1992) (80)
Privatisation and regulation : the UK experience (1987) (76)
Means of Payment in Takeovers: Results for the U.K. And U.S (1987) (74)
Restructuring Enterprises in Eastern Europe (1992) (72)
Governance as a Source of Managerial Discipline (2002) (70)
Prosperity: Better Business Makes the Greater Good (2018) (68)
The Cost of Diversity : The Diversi cation Discount and Ine cient Investment (1997) (68)
Regulatory Structure and Risk and Infrastructure Firms: An International Comparison (1999) (67)
On the Application of Accounting Rates of Return (1986) (66)
Banks and securities markets: Corporate financing in Germany and the United Kingdom (1990) (61)
Financing the New Economy: financial institutions and corporate governance (2002) (60)
The Assessment: Finance, Law, and Growth (2001) (59)
European financial integration: List of figures (1991) (59)
Myths of the West : lessons from developed countries for development finance (1989) (58)
Trust in Financial Markets (2008) (58)
Spending Less Time with the Family: The Decline of Family Ownership in the United Kingdom (2005) (58)
The Origination and Evolution of Ownership and Control (2003) (57)
Profit-Sharing Regulation: An Economic Appraisal (1996) (57)
The Ownership of Japanese Corporations in the 20th Century (2014) (56)
Corporate Governance in the UK (2000) (54)
Financial Innovations and Corporate Insolvency (1999) (52)
Hostile Takeovers In the UK and the Correction of Managerial Failure (1998) (49)
Corporate control in Europe (2002) (49)
The Assessment: Public-Sector Investment (1997) (48)
The Future of the Corporation and the Economics of Purpose (2020) (47)
Selling Public Assets: Techniques and Financial Implications (1985) (47)
THE ASSESSMENT: MONEY AND BANKING: THEORY AND EVIDENCE (1994) (43)
Whose Responsible for Irresponsible Business? An Assessment (2017) (42)
Privatisation and Regulation (1986) (40)
The Life Cycle of Family Ownership: A Comparative Study of France, Germany, Italy and the U.K (2009) (36)
THE ASSESSMENT: FINANCIAL LIBERALIZATION, FINANCIAL SYSTEMS, AND ECONOMIC GROWTH (1989) (35)
Stock Markets, Financial Institutions and Corporate Performance (1994) (34)
Recent developments in corporate finance: List of figures (1986) (34)
Returns to Shareholder Activism (2008) (34)
Corporate Governance: An Assessment (2005) (32)
Corporate Governance and Corporate Control (1992) (31)
Evolution of Family Capitalism: A comparative study of France, Germany, Italy and the UK (2008) (31)
THE ASSESSMENT: FINANCIAL SYSTEMS AND CORPORATE INVESTMENT (1987) (31)
Evolution of Ownership and Control Around the World: The Changing Face of Capitalism (2017) (29)
The Assessment: Financial Innovation: Curse or Blessing? (1986) (28)
The City and Corporate Performance: Condemned or Exonerated? (1997) (27)
Banks and Securities Markets: Corporate Financing in Germany and the UK (1990) (27)
Hostile Takeovers: Defence, Attack, and Corporate Governance (2000) (27)
Ownership and Control in Europe (1998) (22)
Structure and Ownership of East German Enterprises (1995) (21)
Corporate Finance in the Euromarkets and the Economics of Intermediation (1991) (20)
Restarting European long-term investment finance. (2015) (19)
Race to the top or bottom? Corporate governance, freedom of reincorporation and competition in law (2005) (18)
The Making of Monetary Union: Monitoring European Integration 2 (1994) (18)
The Macroprudential Approach (2016) (16)
Privatization and Regulation: The U.K.Experience (1986) (16)
Who Disciplines Bad Management (1998) (16)
Handbook of European Financial Markets and Institutions (2012) (15)
Bank Governance (2016) (15)
Entrepreneurship: An Assessment (2018) (15)
An investigation into the dividend and new equity issue practices of firms : evidence from survey information (1985) (15)
Leasing, taxes, and the cost of capital (1991) (15)
The Making of Monetary Union (1991) (15)
International Evidence on Corporate Governance: Lessons for Developing Countries (2002) (15)
Do Hostile Takeovers Improve Performance (1996) (14)
Multinational Ownership and Subsidiary Investment (2007) (14)
Where Do Firms Incorporate? (2006) (14)
The survival of the weakest: flourishing family firms in Germany (2015) (14)
The assessment: contracts and competition (1996) (13)
European capital markets and corporate control (1993) (13)
Capital Markets, Ownership and Distance (2006) (13)
Risk, Regulation, and Investor Protection: The Case of Investment Management (1990) (13)
The Limits of Financial Regulation (2016) (13)
Asset Management and Investor Protection: An International Analysis (2003) (12)
The Costs of Privatisation in the UK and France (1994) (12)
Regulatory Principles and the Financial Services and Markets Act (2001) (12)
The assessment: financial instability (1999) (12)
Stock Markets and Corporate Performance: A Comparison of Quoted and Unquoted Firms (1991) (12)
Equity Markets and Institutions: The Case of Japan (2009) (12)
Theory of Banking (2016) (12)
Institutional Investment and Private Equity in the UK (2001) (12)
A Response to Hackethal and Schmidt (2003) 'Financing Patterns: Measurement Concepts and Empirical Results' (2004) (11)
European Financial Integration: A Framework for Policy Analysis (1990) (11)
Reinventing the corporation (2016) (10)
Shareholderism Versus Stakeholderism – a Misconceived Contradiction. A Comment on 'The Illusory Promise of Stakeholder Governance' by Lucian Bebchuk and Roberto Tallarita (2020) (10)
Valuing the Invaluable: How Much is the Planet Worth? (2018) (10)
The Treuhandanstalt: Privatization by State and Market (1994) (10)
Capital markets and financial intermediation: Preface (1993) (10)
Developing the Rules for Corporate Governance (2001) (10)
Infrastructure: why it is under provided and badly managed (2016) (10)
Financial Liberalization, Financial Systems, and Economic Growth: The Assessment (1989) (9)
The Regulation of the Water Industry: An Interim Assessment (1994) (9)
Gouvernement d'entrepise, concurrence et performance (1996) (9)
Management Research and The Future of the Corporation: A New Agenda (2017) (9)
The Political Economy of Financial Regulation (2016) (9)
Corporate governance in the UK: contrasted with the US system (2002) (9)
Taxation and Regulation of Banks to Manage Systemic Risk (2012) (9)
Measuring Purpose: An Integrated Framework (2021) (8)
How Should a ‘Sustainable Corporation’ Account for Natural Capital? (2017) (8)
Contracts and competition (1996) (8)
Public Ownership: Concepts and Applications (1987) (8)
Deregulation and the State in Comparative Perspective: The Case of Telecommunications@@@The Politics of Deregulation@@@Deregulating Telecoms: Competition and Control in the United States, Japan and Britain@@@Privatisation and Regulation: The UK Experience@@@Marketplace for Telecommunications: Regula (1989) (8)
Heterogeneity in Investment Spike Financing (2020) (8)
Reforming the UK financial system to promote regional development in post-COVID Britain (2020) (8)
The Assessment: Microeconomic Policy in the 1980s (1991) (8)
European capital markets: Competition between systems (1999) (8)
Business in times of crisis (2020) (7)
Recent Developments in Industrial Economics and their Implications for Policy (1985) (7)
Payment and Settlement Systems (2016) (7)
Financial Innovation: Curse or Blessing? (1986) (7)
The future of the corporation: Towards humane business (2018) (7)
The structure of corporation tax in the UK (1982) (7)
Money and Banking: Theory and Evidence (1994) (7)
An Investigation of University Selection Procedures (1986) (7)
Investment Spike Financing (2017) (7)
The real value of company accounts (1988) (6)
Financing Investment : A New Test of Capital Structure (2005) (6)
Asset Management and Investor Protection (2002) (6)
Water: The 1999 Price Review (1999) (6)
The Micro, Macro and International Design of Financial Regulation (2012) (6)
Management Science - Special Issue on Business and Climate Change (2019) (6)
Putting Purpose Into Practice (2021) (5)
The effects of taxation on corporate dividend distributions (1985) (5)
Investment and Growth: The Role of Corporate Governance (2000) (5)
Venture Capital and the Corporate Governance Life Cycle (2005) (5)
Nomination Committees and Corporate Governance: Lessons from Sweden and the UK (2018) (5)
Stimulating Innovation in Industry: The Challenge for the United Kingdom (1992) (5)
OWNERSHIP: AN INAUGURAL LECTURE (1993) (5)
INCENTIVES ON PRIVATE INFRASTRUCTURE COMPANIES (1997) (5)
Finance and development: issues and experience: Financing and development in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union: issues and institutional support (1993) (5)
Against the microfoundation hegemony: cooperation in biology, business and economics. (2019) (5)
A New Test of Capital Structure Theory (2002) (4)
Banking, finance, and the role of the state (2011) (4)
Session I: Corporate Purpose and Governance (2019) (4)
The structure and relations of banking systems: the UK experience and the challenges of ‘levelling-up’ (2021) (4)
Foreign Direct Investment: Who Cares about Ownership? (2003) (3)
Big Bang: new beginning or beginning of the end? (2015) (3)
Corporate Governance is Relevant (2000) (3)
Corporate Governance: A Policy for Europe (2003) (3)
Regulation, Diversification and the Separate Listing of Utilities (1997) (3)
Managerial disciplining and the market for (partial) corporate control in the UK (2002) (3)
How Do Firms Finance Large Cash Flow Requirements (2008) (3)
Regulating for Value Creation: What is the Link between Market Confidence and Contractual Freedom? (2012) (3)
Capitalism: what has gone wrong, what needs to change, and how it can be fixed (2021) (3)
The Financing of Innovation (1992) (3)
Capital markets and financial intermediation: Introduction (1993) (3)
Equity Rates of Return in the UK — Evidence From Panel Data (1984) (2)
Corporate Governance in Europe: Competition versus Harmonization (2004) (2)
Marginal rates of corporation tax: a disaggregated analysis (1982) (2)
Economic Development, Financial Systems, and the Law (2015) (2)
European financial integration: Introduction (1991) (2)
Conceiving corporate commitment: creation and confirmation (2015) (2)
Does Corporate Mobility Enhance Corporate Governance (2006) (2)
Ownership, Agency and Trusteeship (2019) (2)
Indexation of capital gains - a critique of the Budget proposals (1982) (2)
The Capital Structure of Water Companies (2003) (2)
Inflation accounting : a re-examination of alternative proposals (1984) (2)
Company Expectations and New Information: An Application of Kalman Filtering (1985) (2)
Corporation tax: the impact of the 1984 budget (1984) (2)
Special issue on corporate governance Preface (2007) (2)
The Rights and Wrongs of Shareholder Rights (2017) (2)
Share Repurchases and Control of the Corporation : The Evidence from Japan (2017) (2)
The Governance of Corporate Purpose (2021) (2)
An analysis of bankruptcy bargaining in the U . S . 1 (2002) (2)
From Principles to Practice (2016) (2)
The Assessment: Finance, Law, and Economic Growth (2003) (2)
Ownership, Control and Governance of European and US Corporations (2002) (2)
Bondholder Wealth in M&As: Evidence on the Impact and Spillover of Governance and Legal Standards (2006) (1)
Lessons from Developed Countries for Development Finance (1989) (1)
Ownership, agency, and trusteeship: an assessment (2020) (1)
European corporate governance: harmonisation versus competition (2003) (1)
The appropriate level of regulation in Europe: local, national or community-wide? A roundtable discussion (1989) (1)
PITFALLS IN PUBLIC POLICY: PROFITS OR PROPS (1985) (1)
Capital requirements and investor protection: an international perspective (1990) (1)
Conceiving corporate commitment (2014) (1)
Ownership: Evolution and Regulation We Have Received Helpful Comments From (2004) (1)
How to Avoid Implementing Today's Wrong Policies to Solve Yesterday's Corporate Governance Problems (2013) (1)
Leasing and the Cost of Capital (1991) (1)
Private Saving and Public Debt. (1988) (1)
The Goals and Strategies of Financial Regulation (2016) (1)
Comment on ‘Corporate Restructuring in Response to Performance Decline: Impact of Ownership, Governance and Lenders’ (1997) (1)
The Design and Implementation of Financial Regulation (1991) (1)
The financing of technology (1992) (1)
A Question of Trust: Historical Lessons for Current Development (2009) (1)
The Risk of Risk Committees (2015) (1)
Executive Summary: Running in the Family (2012) (1)
The City and corporate performance (1997) (1)
Stock Repurchases and Corporate Control: Evidence from Japan (2018) (1)
'Capital requirements and the behaviour of banks': by Jean-Charles Rochet (1992) (1)
Naming and Shaming: Evidence from Event Studies (2019) (1)
The research background to the final report of the Future of the Corporation programme on �Policy & Practice for Purposeful Business� (2022) (1)
Commitment and control in regulation: the future of regulation in water (2005) (1)
Finance and investment : the European case (2018) (1)
Financial Regulation: Lessons from the UK for the EEC (1990) (0)
Introduction (0)
THE DEATH OF THE PUBLIC CORPORATION (2016) (0)
Finance, wealth, technological innovation, and regulation (2017) (0)
Recent developments in corporate finance: Preface (1986) (0)
Financial Liberalisation, Financial Systems and Economic Development (1989) (0)
Overview (0)
European financial integration: Preface (1991) (0)
Regulating Consumer Finance (2016) (0)
Essays in corporate restructuring, reputation and law (2012) (0)
Issuer Disclosure Regulation (2016) (0)
Who’s responsible for irresponsible business? (2017) (0)
The Assessment: Financial Liberalization, Financial Systems and Economic Development (1989) (0)
No . 164 Corporate Governance , Competition and Performance (2018) (0)
Regulation and the Separate Listing of Utilities (1997) (0)
Title The Financing and Governance of New Technologies (2017) (0)
Conclusion (0)
Financial systems in Eastern Europe: lessons from the West (1993) (0)
Columbia Law School Roundtable on The Future Of Capitalism (2020) (0)
An Introduction to Finance and Investment (2018) (0)
NGO Activism, Legitimacy, and Shareholder Value (2019) (0)
Market-Based Credit Intermediation (2016) (0)
Conclusion—Designing Tomorrow’s Financial System Today (2016) (0)
Microequity and Mutuality: Experimental Evidence on Credit with Performance-Contingent Repayment (2022) (0)
Financial Institutions and the Institutional Foundations of a Market Economy (2001) (0)
International Regulatory Coordination (2016) (0)
Recent developments in corporate finance: Introduction (1986) (0)
The Influence of the Financial System on the British Corporate Sector (1990) (0)
Trading and Market Integrity (2016) (0)
Title Sources of Funds and Investment Strategies of Venture Capital Funds : Evidence from Germany , Israel , Japan and the UK (2019) (0)
Are Moral Firms Committed Firms? (2023) (0)
IESE ECGI CONFERENCE ON CORPORATE PURPOSE: Can Purpose Deliver Better Corporate Governance? (2021) (0)
Theory of Financial Markets (2016) (0)
Creating Incentives for Private Infrastructure Companies to Become More Efficient (1997) (0)
Supervision and Enforcement of Financial Regulation (2016) (0)
Conference on the Regulation of Financial Institutions (2001) (0)
Capitalism: what has gone wrong, what needs to change, and how it can be fixed— global propositions, national initiatives, local solutions (2021) (0)
What is Wrong with Corporate Law? The Purpose of Law and the Law of Purpose (2022) (0)
Asset Managers and Stability (2016) (0)
The Purpose of Corporate Purpose Statements: A Response to 'Shareholder Voice and Corporate Purpose: The Purposeless of Mandatory Corporate Purpose Statements' by Paul Davies (2023) (0)
Challenges in Securities Markets Regulation: Investor Protection and Corporate Governance (2015) (0)
Comment on 'Putting Integrity Into Finance: A Purely Positive Approach' (by Werner Erhard and Michael C. Jensen) (2017) (0)
Water: The 1999 Periodic Review (2001) (0)
Regulation and Asset Management (2002) (0)
No 744 August 2006 Capital Markets , Ownership and Distance (2006) (0)

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