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Top 10 downloads in the Working Paper Series
in Law
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As of November 2009, the top ten downloads of ECGI papers from SSRN are as follows (figures in brackets refer to November 2008):


Position Downloads Paper and author(s) Click paper title for further details

1
(1)
10344
(8813)
Board Models in Europe. Recent Developments of Internal Corporate Governance Structures in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy by Klaus Hopt, Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private and Private International Law, Hamburg & ECGI and Patrick C. Leyens, Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private and Private International Law, Hamburg Published: January 2004
2
(2)
4872
(4446)
Modern Company and Capital Market Problems: Improving European Corporate Governance after Enron by Klaus Hopt, Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private and Private International Law, Hamburg Published: November 2002
3
(3)
4740
(3771)
Hedge Funds in Corporate Governance and Corporate Control by Marcel Kahan, School of Law, New York University and Edward Rock, School of Law, University of Pennsylvania Published: July 2006
4
(4)
3845
(3590)
Taking Shareholder Protection Seriously? Corporate Governance in the United States and Germany by Theodor Baums, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University and ECGI, and Kenneth Scott, Stanford Law School and Hoover Institution Published: November 2003
5
(5)
3055
(3026)
International Differences in Cost of Equity Capital: Do Legal Institutions and Securities Regulation Matter? by Luzi Hail, University of Zurich and Christian Leuz, University of Pennsylvania and ECGI Published: November 2003
6
(6)
3043
(2715)
Executive Remuneration in the EU: Comparative Law and Practice by Guido Ferrarini, Università degli Studi di Genova-Law School, Niamh Moloney, Queen's University Belfast-School of Law and ECGI and Cristina Vespro, Universite Libre de Bruxelles and ECGI Published: June 2003
7
(7)
2933
(2545)
The Costs and Benefits of Financial Market Regulation by Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago, NBER, CEPR, and ECGI Published: April 2004
8
(10)
2858
(2380)
Financial Scandals and the Role of Private Enforcement: The Parmalat Case by Guido Ferrarini, University of Genoa, Centre for Law and Finance and ECGI, and Paolo Giudici, Free University of Bozen and Centre for Law and Finance Published: May 2005
9
(9)
2847
(2434)
Hedge Funds, Insiders, and Empty Voting: Decoupling of Economic and Voting Ownership in Public Companies by Bernard Black, School of Law and Red McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin and ECGI, and T. C. Hu, University of Texas Law School Published: updated March 2006
10
(8)
2786
(2470)
Controlling Shareholders and Corporate Governance: Complicating the Comparative Taxonomy by Ronald Gilson, Columbia Law School, Stanford Law School and ECGI Published: August 2005