Fannie and Freddie (July 14, 2008)

Here and here are some quick must-reads on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, their relation to the mortgage meltdown, and... (Category: Current Affairs, Economics, Securities)

IndyMac Fails (July 12, 2008)

While Fannie and Freddie flounder, another Big Mac has flamed out. On Friday, the FDIC seized control of IndyMac Bank,... (Category: Businesses of Note)

Car Talk (July 02, 2008)

A couple of car-related items: First, about hybrid cars . . . . Christine and Gordon's recent hybrid car postings... (Category: Environment, Miscellany)

Picturing Foreclosure at The O.C. (June 17, 2008)

The housing bust has even hit The O.C., where foreclosures topped 1,000 in May. To catch a glimpse of the... (Category: Bankruptcy, Current Affairs)

Deadwood . . . (June 16, 2008)

. . . the HBO series, not the unproductive faculty member. As long as we're on the topic of summer... (Category: Television)

Growth Blog (June 04, 2008)

Two economists at the Kauffman Foundation, Robert Litan and Tim Kane, have started Growthology, a new blog on entrepreneurship and... (Category: Entrepreneurship, Globalization/Trade, Law & Entrepreneurship, Social Entrepreneurship)

CLEA Submission Deadline Extended (June 03, 2008)

The Canadian Law and Economics Association 2008 annual meeting will be September 26-27 in Toronto (as always). The submission deadline... (Category: Conferences)

Getting to the Top (June 03, 2008)

Some interesting findings on CEO hirings and firings from a recent Economist piece: 1. Importance of finance. One-fifth of US... (Category: Business Organizations, Comparative Law, Corporate Governance, Finance, Globalization/Trade)

Liar Loans and Bankuptcy Discharge (May 29, 2008)

Judge Leslie Tchaikovsky, a bankruptcy judge in the Northern District of California, has issued a whopper of an opinion holding... (Category: Bankruptcy, Securities)

The Psychology of "Walking Away" (May 05, 2008)

Further to the interdisciplinary focus on debtors, what is the difference between getting foreclosed and walking away from your house?... (Category: Law & Economics, Miscellany)

Say Cheese (April 08, 2008)

I grew up eating at The Cheesecake Factory, so I was somewhat disappointed when I heard that the Calabasas, California... (Category: Businesses of Note, Corporate Governance, Investing, Securities)

The Mortgage Meltdown and Negative Equity Certificates (April 03, 2008)

Last Sunday's NYT reported on an idea that regulators and legislators have been kicking around to keep people in their... (Category: Administrative Law, Finance, Securities)

Sneaker Wars: Book Review Review (March 21, 2008)

Just in time for March Madness, Sneaker Wars has just come out, recounting the modest origins of the now-multinational multi-billion-dollar... (Category: Businesses of Note, Entrepreneurs, Europe, Family, Marketing, Retailing, Sports)

Girl Talk: Biology and Language Skills (March 06, 2008)

Scientific American reports on a study attempting to explain the biological basis for why girls seem to have superior language... (Category: Gender Issues, Science)

What's Happening in Private Equity Deals (January 25, 2008)

I just saw a wonderful presentation on trends in private equity deal terms, part of Emory's M&A Workshops sponsored by... (Category: Contracts, M&A, Takeovers, Transactional Law)

Comparative CSR (January 24, 2008)

A recent piece in the Economist notes the various orderings of CSR priorities across different countries. For example, the 3... (Category: Globalization/Trade, Social Responsibility)

Capitalist Roaders at the Glom (January 20, 2008)

A new sign of our tremendous influence here at the Glom is that we're banned in China. Even our name... (Category: Blogs and Blawgs, Globalization/Trade)

Lender Leakage (January 19, 2008)

Two interesting recent empirical papers address the issue of information leakage from private lenders that affects securities trading and takeovers.... (Category: M&A, Securities, Takeovers)

Fred Tung on Lawrence Mitchell, The Speculation Economy: How Finance Triumphed Over Industry (December 10, 2007)

"We are all capitalists now," I like to tell my students. Our savings, our mortgages, our retirements, our insurance policies--literally,... (Category: Book Club)

Conference: Emory's New Center for Transactional Law and Practice (December 08, 2007)

Glomming onto Jennifer's recent post on reforming the corporate law curriculum, I have been remiss in not sooner announcing Emory's... (Category: Calls for Papers, Conferences, Transactional Law)

Securities Potpourri (November 30, 2007)

In addition to the SEC's recent rule change permitting IFRS financial statements by foreign private issuers, here are a few... (Category: Securities)

Worser and Worser for Consumer Debtors (November 28, 2007)

With the subprime mortgage meltdown, things are looking pretty bleak for many homeowners and consumers. Bankruptcy is becoming a more... (Category: Businesses of Note, Finance)

Report from CELS (November 10, 2007)

I'm spending the weekend in New York at CELS. Lots of interesting papers and presentations. Just to name a handful:... (Category: Conferences, Empirical Legal Studies)

Financial Literacy for Teens (November 04, 2007)

In the midst of the current mortgage meltdown, it's no wonder that interest in consumer financial education has become front... (Category: Finance)

Crocs Watch (November 02, 2007)

Having followed the company's goings-on over the past few months (here and here), I finally got a pair of Crocs... (Category: Businesses of Note, Popular Culture, Retailing)

Free Is More Complicated Than You'd Think (November 02, 2007)

Every day, thousands of us bloggers give away free stuff over the internet--our "content." Scott Adams of Dilbert fame had... (Category: Blogs and Blawgs, Popular Culture)

To infinity and beyond? (October 18, 2007)

We generally take as an article of faith that stock prices will rise in the long run. And the evidence... (Category: Investing)

Fordham Murphy Conference (October 18, 2007)

Fordham's Murphy Conference on Corporate Law is this weekend. This year's focus is on Corporations, Investors, and the Securities Markets.... (Category: Conferences)

Croc Bites (September 18, 2007)

Before, I said Crocs rock. Now, it turns out, Crocs bite. Looks like kids, Crocs, and escalators don't mix. It's... (Category: Businesses of Note, Popular Culture)

Wins per A-Rod (September 16, 2007)

I have to confess I'm really only a casual observer of baseball and other professional sports these days, but after... (Category: Economics, Sports)

Big Bad Bank (September 02, 2007)

For some reason, a financial scandal doesn't excite me the way it does most people. I guess I'm something of... (Category: Businesses of Note)

Crocs: Fad or For Real? (July 15, 2007)

Are Crocs ugly? There are websites devoted to their derision. The proprietary resin ("NOT plastic NOR rubber") shoes have even... (Category: Businesses of Note, Popular Culture)

Things I Did Not Know . . . (July 08, 2007)

. . . until I went to Ethiopia: 1. The world's highest capital city is LaPaz, at 11,913 feet above... (Category: Comparative Law, Economic Development, Globalization/Trade)

Testosterone Economics (July 05, 2007)

Tyler Cowan at MR reports on an Economist report on an ultimatum game study associating rejection behavior with testosterone levels.... (Category: Empirical Legal Studies, Gender Issues, Law & Economics)

Notes from Ethiopia (July 05, 2007)

I'm just back from a week in Ethiopia, where I consulted with the Ministry of Justice on reform of Ethiopia's... (Category: Comparative Law, Economic Development, Globalization/Trade)

Synthetic Hedge Funds (July 03, 2007)

The most recent issue of the New Yorker has an interesting story about an economist/ statistician who has written a... (Category: Hedge Funds, Investing)

International Securities Regulation (June 23, 2007)

I'm in a global mood as I sit here at Dulles waiting for my night flight to Addis Ababa, where... (Category: Europe, Globalization/Trade, Securities)

Megs (June 09, 2007)

Whaddya do when you need to send a 40mb data file to your co-author who's in a different city? Chances... (Category: Internet, Technology)

Connections, Connections, Connections (June 09, 2007)

Mutual fund managers invest more in companies run by their college and grad school pals than in other companies, according... (Category: Investing, Securities)

Free Advice to Avoid Having to Give Free Advice (June 09, 2007)

Every lawyer (and most every law student) has faced the awkward task of turning away free-advice seekers. For just about... (Category: Miscellany)

The Wal-Mart Effect in Global Private Governance (June 03, 2007)

We like to follow Wal-Mart goings-on here at the Glom. Usually it's about downward price pressure in specific geographic or... (Category: Environment, Globalization/Trade, Transactional Law, Wal-Mart)

Hotlanta is Smokin' (May 31, 2007)

Don't come to Atlanta today. Wildfires in southern Georgia have been spreading smoke and particles all the way to Atlanta... (Category: Miscellany)

Zoning in on the Zone of Insolvency (May 21, 2007)

On Friday, in North American Catholic Educational Programming Foundation, Inc. v. Gheewalla, the Delaware Supreme Court cleared up some confusion... (Category: Corporate Law, Delaware, Fiduciary Duties)

Be a Banker to the Poor (April 06, 2007)

Microfinance has received lots of attention since last year's Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Muhammad Yunus for his work... (Category: Economic Development, Entrepreneurs, Finance, Globalization/Trade)

Is that a Zillow on My Pillow? (April 05, 2007)

I confess to being a bit of a residential real estate voyeur. Like others of my ilk, I sometimes browse... (Category: Businesses of Note, Internet)

CLEA Call for Papers (March 28, 2007)

CLEA has circulated its call for papers for the fall annual meeting. The deadline for abstracts or papers is May... (Category: Conferences)

A million bucks ain't what it used to be (March 21, 2007)

The SEC recently proposed a new hurdle to qualify individuals seeking to invest in hedge funds and other privately offered... (Category: Hedge Funds, Politics, Securities)

Creditors and Corporate Governance (March 16, 2007)

A handful of us corporate scholars have been beating the drum on the role of creditors in corporate governance (see,... (Category: Corporate Governance, Empirical Legal Studies, Finance)

Do Women Choke More than Men? (March 02, 2007)

Yes, or at least among professional tennis players, says a paper by Hebrew University's Daniele Paserman. See the write up... (Category: Gender Issues, Sports)

Good Powerpoint, Bad Hotel (January 22, 2007)

I've become something of a PowerPoint social critic (e.g., here and here). Here's a good example, a hilariously novel way... (Category: PowerPoint)

Credit Checks and Civil Rights (January 18, 2007)

CSM has an interesting piece on credit checks as a civil rights issue. Apparently, more and more employers perform credit... (Category: Current Affairs, Employees)

Why Don't We Do It in Our Sleeves? (January 17, 2007)

You probably thought you knew how to cough and sneeze. Cover your mouth/ nose with your hand or a tissue,... (Category: Current Affairs, Health Care)

Cross-Monitoring and Corporate Governance (January 17, 2007)

I'll be presenting Cross-Monitoring and Corporate Governance at Michigan in a few weeks. The paper, co-authored with Joanna Shepherd and... (Category: Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Empirical Legal Studies)

Banking on Banking in China (January 09, 2007)

As I've blogged about before, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China went public last October in the largest IPO in... (Category: Globalization/Trade, IPOs)

AEA Papers on Organization (January 09, 2007)

In addition to AALS this past weekend, the American Economics Association held its own annual meeting in Chicago. Over at... (Category: Conferences, Economics, Law & Economics, Organizational Theory)

Selling Yourself Short . . . (December 19, 2006)

. . . ain't the hazard it used to be, at least not if you want to run Coca-Cola. Coke... (Category: Business Ethics, Businesses of Note, Management, Securities, White Collar Crime)

Director of Transactional Studies at Emory (December 19, 2006)

At Emory, we're in the process of implementing a transactional certificate program, a sort of analog to trial advocacy for... (Category: Miscellany)

More on Flight Delays (November 14, 2006)

Further to my earlier rant on flight delays and airlines' failure to disclose them in timely fashion, Delta has just... (Category: Technology, Travel)

The Diamond-Water Paradox (November 10, 2006)

A recent New Yorker issue carries a fascinating piece on water--the politics, economics, and culture affecting the provision of clean... (Category: Globalization/Trade, Health Care, India)

Wal-Mart on Drugs (October 20, 2006)

It's old news that Wal-Mart's low-price strategy hinges in part on its ability to wring volume discounts from suppliers. However,... (Category: Wal-Mart)

Wal-Mart Goes Green (October 17, 2006)

Let me jump on Gordon's Wal-Mart bandwagon for a minute. Big news in the organic world is that Wal-Mart has... (Category: Wal-Mart)

CEO Blog FD (October 11, 2006)

Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems' CEO, is one of the very few Fortune 500 CEOs with his own blog. Seems pretty... (Category: Blogs and Blawgs, Securities)

Flight Delays (October 02, 2006)

I had the displeasure this weekend of flying Delta to Toronto (for CLEA), and having my early morning flights delayed... (Category: Travel)

Do you want to increase your SSRN downloads? (September 25, 2006)

So begins Tracey George's post over at ELS, where she's guest blogging this week. She reminds us that few topics... (Category: Empirical Legal Studies, Law Schools/Lawyering, Rankings, SSRN)

Bike Helmet Paradox (September 12, 2006)

According to traffic psychologist Ian Walker at the University of Bath, wearing a bike helmet can make you less safe... (Category: Cycling)

Padding Your Time Sheets: the Perfect Crime? (August 30, 2006)

Today's WSJ carries a story about bill padding at the Chicago office of law firm Holland & Knight. Apparently the... (Category: Law Schools/Lawyering)

The landlord says your rent is late . . . More Personal Credit Information (August 29, 2006)

Yesterday I was preparing to teach my first bankruptcy class of the semester, reviewing the Fair Credit Reporting Act. And... (Category: Businesses of Note)

IPO Fees Flee (or Stocks & Sox) (August 07, 2006)

Dr. Seuss is currently the most widely read author in my house, so please forgive the literary allusion. . .... (Category: Globalization/Trade, IPOs)

Profit-Maximizing CSR (August 04, 2006)

A new empirical paper has come out offering yet more evidence that firms generally treat corporate social responsibility as a... (Category: Empirical Legal Studies, Marketing)

Academic Pork (July 31, 2006)

Mississippi State University is getting $37.2 million dollars in federal R&D earmarks this year, just as its senior senator Thad... (Category: Politics, Science)

Empirics of Affirmative Action in Law Schools (July 27, 2006)

The blogosphere is again hopping with commentary on the debate over affirmative action in law school, with special reference to... (Category: Law Schools/Lawyering)

Dialog on Walmart (July 21, 2006)

The debate over the merits of Walmart is hardly new (it's been done here at the Glom as well). But... (Category: Globalization/Trade, Retailing)

The Fortune Cookie 500 (July 15, 2006)

Why are executives so enamored of quoting Chinese proverbs? Daniel Gross over at Slate has the answer. In a nutshell:... (Category: China, Management, Marketing, Popular Culture)

Car Rentals: Who's #1? (July 14, 2006)

Not Hertz, which is what I would have thought, but Enterprise, according to Fortune magazine. Some interesting factoids about the... (Category: Travel)

What Ever Happened to Bazooka Bubble Gum? (July 11, 2006)

Remember Bazooka bubble gum and baseball cards? Where have they gone? That's what Pembridge Capital Management wants to know. Pembridge... (Category: Corporate Governance, Hedge Funds)

More on Bad PowerPoint: Advice from a VC (July 10, 2006)

I've ranted about bad PowerPoint before. I just came across Guy Kawasaki's 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint, sage advice for entrepreneurs... (Category: PowerPoint, Venture Capital)

Empirical Corporate Governance (July 10, 2006)

A new paper by Bhagat and Bolton questions some of the generally accepted conclusions of the prior art on corporate... (Category: Corporate Governance, Empirical Legal Studies)

Plain English? (June 22, 2006)

Tyler Cowan over at Marginal Revolution reports on a new paper that explains why corporate reports are so hard to... (Category: Corporate Governance, Securities)

Merging the World's Exchanges (June 22, 2006)

As each day’s headlines attest, the world’s stock exchange business is consolidating. The NYSE has bid for Euronext, the company... (Category: Europe, Globalization/Trade, IPOs, Securities, Takeovers)

Sox: The Gift that Keeps On Giving (June 15, 2006)

Sox has turned out to be a continuing cost item (bonanza), and not the one-off expense that listed companies (accounting... (Category: Accounting, Corporate Governance, Securities, Small Business)

The World in a Box (June 15, 2006)

If you like quirky economic history, economist Mark Levinson has written a history of the shipping container, The Box: How... (Category: Economics, Globalization/Trade)

Glom and Others at Law and Society (June 14, 2006)

The annual Law and Society meeting is coming up, July 6-9 in Baltimore. Navigating the massive events calendar can be... (Category: Conferences)

The Corporate Social Contract (June 06, 2006)

As more and more old-line companies--Generous Motors, Ford, Delta--struggle to retool around their legacy costs, the Kaiser Family Foundation has... (Category: Employees)

Hilton Head (June 06, 2006)

(If anyone missed me on the Glom,) I've just returned from a family vacation at Hilton Head Island in the... (Category: Travel)

Is Lenovo a Chinese Company? (May 24, 2006)

CNN/Money has a short interview with Bill Amelio, the American CEO of Lenovo, who formerly ran Dell's Asia operations. Among... (Category: Businesses of Note)

The Shape of Sox (May 23, 2006)

Political scientist John Cioffi has a new and interesting paper on the political economy of Sox. He argues that Sox... (Category: Corporate Governance)

Wall Street's Battle for China (May 19, 2006)

Fortune Magazine has a nice piece on the battle for China among the big Western investment banks. It opens by... (Category: China, IPOs)

Public Service Announcement (May 18, 2006)

Don't miss this public health message (click on the pic): (Category: Health Care)

Advice for the Lovelorn? (May 18, 2006)

For those who are just fed up with their mates or mating rituals, some folks at Slate offer an alternative... (Category: Art & Culture)

Open Letter on Immigration (May 17, 2006)

Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution has written an Open Letter on Immigration, which attempts to reflect "the consensus opinion of... (Category: Current Affairs, Globalization/Trade)

CLEA Submission Deadline Extended (May 16, 2006)

The deadline for submitting an abstract for the 2006 Canadian Law and Economics Association meeting has been extended to June... (Category: Conferences)

Sox and Offshore Whistleblowing (May 12, 2006)

From its inception, the (non) application of SOX to foreign issuers has been controversial. Now the whistleblower protections of SOX... (Category: Comparative Law, Employees, Europe)

More Management Reading (May 12, 2006)

This month's management reading from the Economist includes blurbs on managers' escalation bias and Gary Becker's latest views on organ... (Category: Management)

Corporate Law at ALEA: Highlights (May 08, 2006)

Thanks to the Glomerati for the invitation to guest blog. It has been a fun couple of weeks. Just a... (Category: Conferences)

Bad Powerpoint: Powerpoint as Teleprompter (May 07, 2006)

Bad powerpoint seems quite an egalitarian affliction—it seems not to discriminate between the high and mighty and the low and... (Category: Conferences)

ALEA Report: Trends (May 05, 2006)

In addition to lots of corporate papers, the trend at ALEA seems to be--based on my casual empiricism after the... (Category: Law & Economics)

ALEA and Corporate Law (May 04, 2006)

I'm about to make a run for the airport to fly to Berkeley and the annual ALEA meeting. Looking over... (Category: Law & Economics)

Criminalizing Agency Costs? (May 01, 2006)

As the Enron trial proceeds, Larry Ribstein's catchy disparagement of the prosecution as "criminalizing agency costs" has grown legs. Most... (Category: Enron, White Collar Crime)

Book Review Review (April 30, 2006)

With the end of the semester approaching, I get to indulge myself and actually read the NYT Book Review. We... (Category: Books)

Management Reading (April 27, 2006)

I just found this interesting resource in the Economist: a regular feature called "What's in the Journals." It's a monthly... (Category: Management)

M&A in China (April 25, 2006)

The Far Eastern Economic Review has a nice analysis of M&A trends in China. Especially interesting is the description of... (Category: M&A)

The Fortune 500 by State (April 24, 2006)

Thanks to the 'Glom Masters for inviting me to participate. As a fan and frequent lurker on the 'Glom, it's... (Category: )