Ronald Gilson
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- Bachelors Economics University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ronald J. Gilson is an American lawyer, focusing in corporate governance, law & economics, corporate finance, capital markets, mergers & acquisitions and securities regulation, currently the Charles J. Meyers Professor of Law and Business, Emeritus at Stanford Law School.
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- Venture Capital and the Structure of Capital Markets: Banks Versus Stock Markets (1997) (1468)
- The Legal Infrastructure of High Technology Industrial Districts: Silicon Valley, Route 128, and Covenants Not to Compete (1998) (445)
- Globalizing Corporate Governance: Convergence of Form or Function (2000) (352)
- Controlling Shareholders and Corporate Governance: Complicating the Comparative Taxonomy (2005) (274)
- The Mechanisms of Market Efficiency (1984) (266)
- Reinventing the Outside Director: An Agenda for Institutional Investors (1991) (255)
- Engineering a Venture Capital Market: Lessons from the American Experience (2002) (252)
- Sharing Among the Human Capitalists: An Economic Inquiry into the Corporate Law Firm and How Partners Split Profits (1985) (251)
- Understanding the Japanese Keiretsu: Overlaps between Corporate Governance and Industrial Organization (1993) (246)
- The Agency Costs of Agency Capitalism: Activist Investors and the Revaluation of Governance Rights (2013) (227)
- Contracting for Innovation: Vertical Disintegration and Interfirm Collaboration (2008) (226)
- Controlling Controlling Shareholders (2003) (217)
- Value Creation by Business Lawyers: Legal Skills and Asset Pricing (1984) (176)
- Understanding Venture Capital Structure: A Tax Explanation for Convertible Preferred Stock (2002) (173)
- Coming of Age in a Corporate Law Firm: The Economics of Associate Career Patterns (1989) (146)
- Does Venture Capital Require an Active Stock Market? (1999) (139)
- Disputing through Agents: Cooperation and Conflict between Lawyers in Litigation (1994) (104)
- Choice as Regulatory Reform: The Case of Japanese Corporate Governance (2004) (100)
- A Structural Approach to Corporations: The Case against Defensive Tactics in Tender Offers (1981) (95)
- Corporate Governance and Economic Efficiency: When Do Institutions Matter? (1998) (93)
- The Mechanisms of Market Efficiency Twenty Years Later: The Hindsight Bias (2003) (92)
- Sovereign Wealth Funds and Corporate Governance: A Minimalist Response to the New Merchantilism (2008) (85)
- Braiding: The Interaction of Formal and Informal Contracting in Theory, Practice and Doctrine (2010) (82)
- Controlling Family Shareholders in Developing Countries: Anchoring Relational Exchange (2007) (81)
- Sovereign Wealth Funds and Corporate Governance: A Minimalist Response to the New Mercantilism (2008) (75)
- Regulatory Dualism as a Development Strategy: Corporate Reform in Brazil, the United States, and the European Union (2011) (72)
- The law and finance of corporate acquisitions (1995) (68)
- Understanding MACs: Moral Hazard in Acquisitions (2004) (68)
- How Investors Can (and Can't) Create Social Value (2018) (57)
- Seeking Competitive Bids Versus Pure Passivity in Tender Offer Defense (1982) (52)
- Market Efficiency after the Financial Crisis: It's Still a Matter of Information Costs (2014) (51)
- Why Start-Ups? (1999) (49)
- Evaluating Dual Class Common Stock: The Relevance of Substitutes (1987) (49)
- Unocal Fifteen Years Later (And What We Can Do About It) (2000) (46)
- Economically Benevolent Dictators: Lessons for Developing Democracies (2010) (40)
- Deconstructing Equity: Public Ownership, Agency Costs, and Complete Capital Markets (2007) (39)
- The Devolution of the Legal Profession: A Demand Side Perspective (1990) (37)
- Lifetime Employment: Labor Peace and the Evolution of Japanese Corporate Governance (1999) (36)
- Constraints on Private Benefits of Control: Ex Ante Control Mechanisms Versus Ex Post Transaction Review (2012) (36)
- The Case Against Shark Repellent Amendments: Structural Limitations on the Enabling Concept (1982) (32)
- Delaware's Intermediate Standard for Defensive Tactics: Is There Substance to Proportionality Review? (1989) (32)
- Sales and Elections as Methods for Transferring Corporate Control (2000) (31)
- Contract and Innovation: The Limited Role of Generalist Courts in the Evolution of Novel Contractual Terms (2012) (30)
- Investment Companies as Guardian Shareholders: The Place of the MSIC in the Corporate Governance Debate (1993) (29)
- HOW INVESTORS REACT TO POLITICAL RISK (1998) (27)
- The Political Ecology of Takeovers: Thoughts On Harmonizing the European Corporate Governance Environment (1992) (25)
- Text and Context: Contract Interpretation as Contract Design (2014) (25)
- The Case for an Unbiased Takeover Law (with an Application to the European Union) (2014) (25)
- Regulatory Dualism as a Development Strategy: Corporate Reform in Brazil, the U.S., and the EU (2010) (23)
- Locating Innovation: The Endogeneity of Technology, Organizational Structure and Financial Contracting (2009) (21)
- Rules for Growth: Promoting Innovation and Growth Through Legal Reform (2011) (19)
- Convergence and Persistence in Corporate Governance: Globalizing corporate governance: convergence of form or function (2004) (18)
- Lipton and Rowe's Apologia for Delaware: A Short Reply (2001) (17)
- Agency Capitalism: Further Implications of Equity Intermediation (2014) (17)
- Corporate Control and Credible Commitment (2014) (16)
- The Poison Pill in Japan: The Missing Infrastructure (2004) (13)
- REGULATING THE EQUITY COMPONENT OF CAPITAL STRUCTURE: THE SEC'S RESPONSE TO THE ONE‐SHARE, ONE‐VOTE CONTROVERSY (1993) (12)
- From Corporate Law to Corporate Governance (2016) (11)
- The Nordic Corporate Governance Model (2014) (10)
- Economic Crisis and the Integration of Law and Finance: The Impact of Volatility Spikes (2015) (10)
- Reflections in a Distant Mirror: Japanese Corporate Governance Through American Eyes (1997) (9)
- Unlimited Liability and Law Firm Organization: Tax Factors and the Direction of Causation (1991) (9)
- Intellectual Property Rights , Input Markets , and the Value of Intangible Assets (1999) (9)
- Takeovers in the Boardroom: Burke Versus Schumpeter (2005) (9)
- Don't replace democracy with bureaucracy (1993) (8)
- COMMITTEE ON DISCLOSURE OF CORPORATE POLITICAL SPENDING PETITION FOR RULEMAKING August 3 (2009) (7)
- The Rise of Agency Capitalism and the Role of Shareholder Activists in Making it Work (2019) (7)
- Market Efficiency After the Fall: Where Do We Stand Following the Financial Crisis? (2012) (6)
- Lawyers as Transaction Cost Engineers (1997) (5)
- Lawyers as Transaction Cost Engineers (1997) (5)
- Defensive Tactics and Optimal Search: A Simulation Approach (2016) (5)
- Separation and the Function of Corporation Law (2005) (4)
- A Model Company Act and A Model Company Court (2016) (4)
- Session I: Corporate Purpose and Governance (2019) (4)
- Economic Crisis and Share Price Unpredictability: Reasons and Implications (2011) (4)
- How Many Lawyers Does It Take to Change an Economy? (1992) (4)
- Corporate Governance and Capital Markets (2000) (4)
- Business Lawyers and Value Creation for Clients (1995) (4)
- Some of the Essentials of Finance and Investment (1993) (3)
- Corporate Governance Changes as a Signal: Contextualizing the Performance Link (2016) (3)
- Foreword : Business Lawyers and Value Creation for Clients (2019) (3)
- Drafting an Effective Greenmail Prohibition (1988) (3)
- Contract, Uncertainty and Innovation (2010) (3)
- The Future of Corporate Governance in the United States (1998) (3)
- Leo Strine's Third Way: Responding to Agency Capitalism (2007) (3)
- What Triggers Revlon (1990) (2)
- The Core Corporate Governance Puzzle: Contextualizing the Link to Performance (2019) (2)
- Board 3.0 -- An Introduction (2019) (2)
- The Nordic Model in an International Perspective: The Role of Ownership (2014) (2)
- Board 3.0: What the Private‐Equity Governance Model Can Offer Public Companies (2020) (2)
- Idiosyncratic Risk during Economic Downturns: Implications for the Use of Event Studies in Securities Litigation (2013) (2)
- The Limited Future of Unlimited Liability: A Capital Markets Perspective (2020) (2)
- An Efficiency Analysis of Defensive Tactics (2020) (2)
- Cooperation and conflict between litigators (1994) (1)
- THE NEW DISCLOSURES OF EXECUTIVE PAY (1993) (1)
- 1 Economically Benevolent Dictators : Lessons for Developing Democracies (2017) (1)
- Controlling-family shareholders in Asia: Anchoring relational exchange (2008) (1)
- Just Say No to Whom (1990) (1)
- Chapter Eight: “Investment Companies as Guardian Shareholders: The Place of the MSIC in the Corporate Governance Debate” (1994) (1)
- Keynote Discussion: Just What Exactly Does a Transactional Lawyer Do? (2011) (1)
- Economic Crises and the Integration of Law and Finance: The Impact of Volatility Spikes (2016) (1)
- Shifting Influences on Corporate Governance: Capital Market Completeness and Policy Channeling (2020) (1)
- Mome in Hindsight (2005) (1)
- Picking the Low-Hanging Fruit: A Short Essay for Michael Klausner (2020) (0)
- ISSN 1045-6333 HARVARD (2002) (0)
- Some Differences in Corporate Structure in Germany, Japan, and the United States (2020) (0)
- Judicial Intervention In Public Pension Crisis: An Institutionalist Critique (2013) (0)
- Separation and the Function of Corporation Law COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL (2005) (0)
- Brief of Corporate Law Professors as Amici Curie in Support of Respondents (2015) (0)
- Corporate Governance, the Equity Contract and the Cost of Capital: Incremental and Accretive Reform Strategies (2004) (0)
- Clark's Treatise on Corporate Law: Filling Manning's Empty Towers (2006) (0)
- Supreme Court Amicus Brief of 19 Corporate Law Professors, Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, No. 14-915 (2015) (0)
- Agency Capitalism 8 The Rise of Agency Capitalism and the Role of Shareholder Activists in Making I t Work (2019) (0)
- Moral Hazard in Acquisitions (2004) (0)
- The Judiciary and Fiscal Crises: An Institutional Critique (2014) (0)
- The American Corporation in the Twenty-first Century (1997) (0)
- The Fine Art of Judging: William T. Allen (2021) (0)
- Loyalty-Shares: Rewarding Long-term Investors (2013) (0)
- Corporate Governance versus Real Governance (2022) (0)
- MILLSTEIN CENTER‐ECGI CONFERENCE ON: Board 3.0: Bringing the Private Equity Model to Public Companies (2021) (0)
- Sovereign Wealth Funds (2011) (0)
- Supreme Court Amicus Brief of 22 Corporate Law Professors, Mark Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 31, et aL, No. 16-1466 (2017) (0)
- Understanding Macs and Maes (2003) (0)
- Barbarians Inside the Gates: Raiders, Activists, and the Risk of Mistargeting (2022) (0)
- A Broader Perspective on Corporate Governance in Litigation (2017) (0)
- COMMITMENT AND ENTRENCHMENT IN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE (2016) (0)
- 15. Engineering a Venture Capital Market. Replicating the U.S. Template (2003) (0)
- The Failure of the Costless-Information Assumption : Representations , Warranties , Indemnification , and Opinions (2018) (0)
- AIDS--how much have we learned? (1986) (0)
- Discussion of “ Illuminating the Corporate Governance Black Hole : Contextualizing the Link to Performance ” (2019) (0)
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