Law and the Evolution of Firm Governance

The figure displays the proportion of new multi-owner firms registered at the Paris Tribunal of Commerce by organizational form

Published papers

Legal Regime and Business’s Organizational Choice: A Comparison of France and the United States during the Mid-Nineteenth Century. With Naomi R. Lamoreaux. American Law and Economic Review, Vol. 7 (1), 2005, 28-61. (PDF)

Historical Financing of Small- and Medium-Size Enterprises. With Robert Cull, Lance E. Davis, and Naomi R. Lamoreaux. Journal of Banking and Finance. Vol. 30, 3017-42. (PDF)

Corporate Governance and the Plight of Minority Shareholders in the United States before the Great Depression. With Naomi R. Lamoreaux. In E. Glazer and C. Goldin eds. Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America’s History. University of Chicago Press. 2006, 125-152. (working paper version)

Putting the Corporation in its Place, With Timothy Guinnane, Ron Harris and Naomi R.Lamoreaux. Enterprise and Society. Vol 8,  (3) 2007, 687-729.(PDF)

Pouvoir et propriété dans l’entreprise pour une histoire international des sociétés à responsabilité limitée, forthcoming in Annales: E.S.C., January 2008. With Timothy Guinnane, Ron Harris, and Naomi R. Lamoreaux. (English version Ownership and Control in the Entrepreneurial Firm:  An International History of Private Limited Companies, Yale University Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper #959, December 2007)

Working papers

Organizing Middle-Sized Firms in the United States and France, 1830-2000. With Naomi R. Lamoreaux. Fall 2005