Table of contents:
Introduction After Enron: Improving Corporate Law and Modernising Securities Regulation in Europe and the US JOHN ARMOUR and JOSEPH A McCAHERY
Part I: Stock Markets and Information
1 The Mechanisms Of Market Efficiency Twenty Years Later: The Hindsight Bias RONALD J GILSON and REINIER KRAAKMAN
2 Taming the Animal Spirits of the Stock Markets: A Behavioural Approach to Securities Regulation DONALD C LANGEVOORT
Part II: Corporate Scandals in Historical and Comparative Context
3 Icarus and American Corporate Regulation DAVID A SKEEL, JR
4 Corporate Governance after Enron: An Age of Enlightenment SIMON DEAKIN and SUZANNE J KONZELMANN
5 Financial Scandals and the Role of Private Enforcement: The Parmalat Case GUIDO FERRARINI and PAOLO GIUDICI
6 A Theory of Corporate Scandals: Why the US and Europe Differ JOHN C COFFEE, JR
Part III: Evaluating Regulatory Responses: The US and UK
7 The Case for Shareholder Access to the Ballot LUCIAN ARYE BEBCHUK
8 Rules, Principles, and the Accounting Crisis in the United States WILLIAM W BRATTON
9 The Oligopolistic Gatekeeper: The US Accounting Profession JAMES D COX
10 The Liability Risk for Outside Directors: A Cross-Border Analysis BERNARD BLACK, BRIAN CHEFFINS and MICHAEL KLAUSNER
11 The Legal Control of Directors' Conflicts of Interest in the United Kingdom: Non-Executive Directors Following the Higgs Report RICHARD C NOLAN
Part IV: Reforming EU Company Law and Securities Regulation 12 Enron and Corporate Governance Reform in the UK and the European Community PAUL DAVIES
13 Modern Company and Capital Market Problems: Improving European Corporate Governance After Enron KLAUS J HOPT 14 Who Should Make Corporate Law? EC Legislation versus Regulatory Competition JOHN ARMOUR
15 Company and Takeover Law Reforms in Europe: Misguided Harmonization Efforts or Regulatory Competition? GERARD HERTIG and JOSEPH A McCAHERY
16 The Regulatory Process for Securities Law-Making in the EU EILIS FERRAN
17 EC Company Law Directives and Regulations: How Trivial Are They? LUCA ENRIQUES