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2021

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Relational Enforcement Of Stock Exchange Rules, Geeyoung Min, Kwon-Yong Jin Dec 2021

Relational Enforcement Of Stock Exchange Rules, Geeyoung Min, Kwon-Yong Jin

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Stock exchanges, as regulating entities supervised by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), have wielded their rulemaking power on various corporate governance issues, ranging from the independent board committee requirement adopted in 2003 to the board diversity requirement approved in 2021. Simultaneously, as for-profit corporate entities, major stock exchanges have been competing against each other to attract and retain more companies. This dual status of stock exchanges — as regulators and as profit driven entities — brings into question the stock exchanges' incentive to enforce their own rules against listed companies. What happens if a listed company violates stock exchange …


The Role Of Courts In The Evolution Of Standard Form Contracts: An Insurance Case Study, Daniel Schwarcz Mar 2021

The Role Of Courts In The Evolution Of Standard Form Contracts: An Insurance Case Study, Daniel Schwarcz

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Standard form contracts are a pervasive feature of modern commercial life for ordinary consumers and big businesses alike. Yet remarkably little is currently known about how and when these contracts evolve in response to judicial decisions that interpret and apply them in individual disputes. Homeowners insurance policies offer a particularly fertile ground for studying this issue due to both the prominence of the insurance law doctrine that ambiguities are interpreted against the drafter and the historic standardization of insurance policies across different insurers. Utilizing a unique hand collected dataset, this Article empirically investigates the links between innovation in the dominant …