Why We Need Better Corporate Governance Data

Authors

Jens Frankenreiter, Washington University in St. Louis School of LawFollow
Cathy Hwang, University of Virginia School of LawFollow
Yaron Nili, University of Wisconsin Law SchoolFollow
Eric L. Talley, Columbia Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Blog Posting

Language

English (en)

Publication Date

2021

Publication Title

Promarket: Insights Facing the Future of Capitalism

Abstract

Three decades of finance, economics, and legal studies in corporate governance have been built substantially on data sets with nearly unknown provenance. A new paper sets to correct this fatal flaw of contemporary corporate governance research by debuting a brand new resource—the Cleaning Corporate Governance database.

Keywords

Corporate Governance, Data, Cleaning Corporate Governance Database

Publication Citation

Jens Frankenreiter et al., , Why We Need Better Corporate Governance Data, ProMarket (Jun. 8, 2021), https://promarket.org/2021/06/08/better-corporate-governance-data-research/

Comments

Available online at https://www.promarket.org/2021/06/08/better-corporate-governance-data-research/

Promarket is a publication of the George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Repository Citation

Frankenreiter, Jens; Hwang, Cathy; Nili, Yaron; and Talley, Eric L., "Why We Need Better Corporate Governance Data" (2021). Scholarship@WashULaw. 666.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_scholarship/666