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Last 12 Months All Time Authors
Rank
Paper
Total New Downloads Total # of Downloads Total # of Citations
# of Authors Total Downloads per author New Downloads per author Total Citations per author
1 Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure
Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling
Harvard Business School and Simon School, University of Rochester (Deceased)
Date posted to database: July 19, 1998
Last Revised: May 18, 2013
8,906 (17) 95,681 (3) 4,210 (1) 2 (70934) 47,841 (4) 4,453 (25) 2,105 (2)
2 Law and Finance
Rafael La Porta , Florencio Lopez de Silanes , Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny
Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business , EDHEC Business School , Harvard University - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Date posted to database: September 27, 1996
Last Revised: May 14, 2000
110 (17723) 515 (24064) 2,642 (2) 4 (4702) 129 (81015) 28 (62607) 661 (26)
3 Agency Cost Of Free Cash Flow, Corporate Finance, and Takeovers
Michael C. Jensen
Harvard Business School
Date posted to database: March 25, 1999
Last Revised: August 7, 2006
3,872 (49) 24,482 (32) 2,167 (3) 1 (183738) 24,482 (16) 3,872 (35) 2,167 (1)
4 Corporate Financing and Investment Decisions When Firms Have Informationthat Investors Do Not Have
Stewart C. Myers and Nicholas S. Majluf
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Date posted to database: June 21, 2001
Last Revised: August 27, 2001
253 (4807) 1,252 (6230) 1,894 (4) 2 (70934) 626 (10527) 127 (8763) 947 (10)
5 A Survey of Corporate Governance
Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny
Harvard University - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Date posted to database: October 28, 1996
Last Revised: October 1, 2010
482 (1655) 1,379 (5282) 1,518 (5) 2 (70934) 690 (9026) 241 (3129) 759 (22)
6 Legal Determinants of External Finance
Rafael La Porta , Florencio Lopez de Silanes , Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny
Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business , EDHEC Business School , Harvard University - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Date posted to database: March 12, 1997
Last Revised: October 4, 2010
129 (13995) 411 (32404) 1,475 (6) 4 (4702) 103 (99070) 32 (54571) 369 (62)
7 A Simple, Positive Semi-Definite, Heteroskedasticity and Autocorrelationconsistent Covariance Matrix
Whitney K. Newey and Kenneth D. West
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Economics
Date posted to database: July 10, 2000
Last Revised: August 28, 2010
188 (7901) 451 (28696) 1,467 (7) 2 (70934) 226 (44294) 94 (14096) 734 (23)
8 Separation of Ownership and Control
Eugene F. Fama and Michael C. Jensen
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business (Finance Authors) and Harvard Business School
Date posted to database: November 29, 1998
Last Revised: August 14, 2006
2,153 (134) 29,079 (19) 1,311 (8) 2 (70934) 14,540 (34) 1,077 (221) 656 (27)
9 Corporate Ownership Around the World
Rafael La Porta , Florencio Lopez de Silanes and Andrei Shleifer
Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business , EDHEC Business School and Harvard University - Department of Economics
Date posted to database: July 31, 1998
Last Revised: November 26, 2003
338 (2981) 5,217 (495) 1,283 (9) 3 (17568) 1,739 (1826) 113 (10590) 428 (41)
9 Corporate Ownership Around the World
Rafael La Porta , Florencio Lopez de Silanes and Andrei Shleifer
Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business , EDHEC Business School and Harvard University - Department of Economics
Date posted to database: August 4, 2000
Last Revised: October 10, 2010
69 (33349) 255 (57282) 1,283 (9) 3 (17568) 85 (115608) 23 (75399) 428 (41)


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