To get on this list, you'd need to add the corporate law key designation K22, which I, for one, never do.  But you'll note that other than Lucian Bebchuk and Roberta Romano, the authors are economists, and only some of the articles look interesting, depending on how you feel about accounting standards  Without further ado, the top 11:

What Matters in Corporate Governance
Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 783-827, February 2009, Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 491 (2004)
Lucian A. Bebchuk , Alma Cohen and Allen Ferrell
Harvard University - Harvard Law School , Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics and Harvard Law School
Date Posted: September 21, 2004
Last Revised: April 17, 2009
Accepted Paper Series
16009 downloads

International Corporate Governance
ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 05/2003; and Tuck-JQFA Contemporary Corporate Governance Issues II Conference
Diane K. Denis and John J. McConnell
Purdue University - Krannert School of Management and Purdue University
Date Posted: July 30, 2002
Last Revised: April 30, 2003
Working Paper Series
13522 downloads

Remuneration: Where We've Been, How We Got to Here, What are the Problems, and How to Fix Them
Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 04-28; ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 44/2004
Michael C. Jensen , Kevin J. Murphy and Eric G. Wruck
Harvard Business School , University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Econalytics
Date Posted: July 5, 2004
Last Revised: September 23, 2004
Working Paper Series
12177 downloads

Board Models in Europe - Recent Developments of Internal Corporate Governance Structures in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 18/2004, European Company and Financial Law Review, pp. 135-168, 2004, Company & Securities Law Review, Vol. 1, pp. 217-245, 2005, VOC 1602-2004: 400 YEARS OF COMPANY LAW, Ella Gepken-Jager, Gerard van Solinge, Levinus Timmerman, eds., Deventer (Kluwer), 2005
Klaus J. Hopt and Patrick C. Leyens
Max Planck Institute of Foreign Private and Private International Law and University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics, Faculty of Law
Date Posted: January 20, 2004
Last Revised: February 28, 2006
Accepted Paper Series
11398 downloads

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Making of Quack Corporate Governance
NYU, Law and Econ Research Paper 04-032; Yale Law & Econ Research Paper 297; Yale ICF Working Paper 04-37; ECGI - Finance Working Paper 52/2004
Roberta Romano
Yale Law School
Date Posted: September 27, 2004
Last Revised: July 23, 2005
Working Paper Series
7394 downloads

Corporate Governance and Earnings Management
Sonda Marrakchi Chtourou , Jean Bédard and Lucie Courteau
University of Sfax , Université Laval - École de comptabilité and Free University of Bozen-Bolzano - School of Economics
Date Posted: June 29, 2001
Last Revised: May 22, 2003
Working Paper Series
6805 downloads

Audit Committee, Board of Director Characteristics, and Earnings Management
NYU, Law and Economics Research Paper No. 06-42
April Klein
New York University - Department of Accounting, Taxation & Business Law
Date Posted: November 22, 2000
Last Revised: April 30, 2008
Working Paper Series
6244 downloads

Agency Costs of Overvalued Equity
ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 39/2004, Harvard Business School NOM Working Paper No. 04-26, Financial Management, Vol. 34, No. 1, Spring 2005
Michael C. Jensen
Harvard Business School
Date Posted: March 29, 2004
Last Revised: May 6, 2009
Accepted Paper Series
6109 downloads

Mandatory IFRS Reporting Around the World: Early Evidence on the Economic Consequences
ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 198/2008, Chicago GSB Research Paper No. 12
Holger Daske , Luzi Hail , Christian Leuz and Rodrigo S. Verdi
University of Mannheim , University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School , University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Date Posted: October 25, 2007
Last Revised: September 8, 2008
Working Paper Series
6098 downloads

The Case for Increasing Shareholder Power
Harvard Law Review, Vol. 118, No. 3, pp. 833-914, January 2005, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 500
Lucian A. Bebchuk
Harvard University - Harvard Law School
Date Posted: March 17, 2003
Last Revised: April 28, 2009
Accepted Paper Series
5693 downloads

Economic Consequences of Financial Reporting and Disclosure Regulation: A Review and Suggestions for Future Research
Christian Leuz and Peter D. Wysocki
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Miami School of Business Administration
Date Posted: March 13, 2008
Last Revised: May 7, 2008
Working Paper Series
5587 downloads

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