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Shadow Trading, Corporate Investments, and Macroeconomic Risk

By Yoon-Ho Alex Lee, Lawrence Liu and Alessandro Romano March 22, 2023 by Alessandro Romano

Corporate insiders engage in “shadow trading” when they use private information about their own firm to trade in the shares of economically connected companies such as suppliers, customers, or competitors. While legal scholars have long recognized that shadow trading can …

Dual Class Shares in the Age of Common Ownership

By Vittoria Battocletti, Luca Enriques and Alessandro Romano May 10, 2022 by Alessandro Romano

Mark Zuckerberg has virtually all his personal wealth invested in Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook). His incentives as controller of Meta are thus clear: Maximize firm value and private benefits of control, irrespective of the effect that might have on other …

Rewiring Corporate Law for an Interconnected World

By Luca Enriques and Alessandro Romano November 18, 2021 by Alessandro Romano

The traditional view of corporate law can be summarized as follows. Shareholders have a single well-defined objective, namely “to maximize the net present value of the firm’s earnings per dollar invested” (Hansmann, 283). Managing companies in the interest …

Insider Trading and Macroeconomic Risk

By Alessandro Romano December 4, 2019 by Alessandro Romano

In a new article, I use network theory to show that there is a hidden link between insider trading and macroeconomic risk.  I suggest that current laws on insider trading increase the level of macroeconomic risk for the economy, and …

Network-Sensitive Financial Regulation

By Luca Enriques, Alessandro Romano and Thom Wetzer June 10, 2019 by Alessandro Romano

Shocks to only part of the financial system, such as the collapse of the subprime mortgage market in 2007, can spread and intensify through the complex interconnections among financial and non-financial institutions to become systemic threats. The consequences can be …

Institutional Investor Voting Behavior: A Network Theory Perspective

By Luca Enriques and Alessandro Romano May 17, 2018 by Alessandro Romano

It is received wisdom that institutional investors have insufficient incentives to cast informed votes because they compete on relative performance. If BlackRock invests in the monitoring of one of its portfolio companies, it will become relatively less competitive vis-à-vis the …

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