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Curtis J. Milhaupt

Curtis J. Milhaupt

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D-Index
27
Citations
4425
World Ranking
327
National Ranking
233

Overview

Curtis J. Milhaupt is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spans several fields and subfields, including Strategy and Management, Political Science and International Relations, Accounting, Law, and Finance.

The main topics covered in their work include Political Influence and Corporate Strategies, Corporate Finance and Governance, Social Policy and Reform Studies, China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance, State Capitalism and Financial Governance, Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism, and Taxation and Legal Issues.

Milhaupt's recent publications include the following papers:

  • The state as owner-China's experience, 2020, Oxford Review of Economic Policy
  • Party Building or Noisy Signaling? The Contours of Political Conformity in Chinese Corporate Governance, 2021, The Journal of Legal Studies
  • China's Corporate Social Credit System: The Dawn of Surveillance State Capitalism?, 2023, The China Quarterly
  • Shifting Influences on Corporate Governance: Capital Market Completeness and Policy Channeling, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • China's Corporate Social Credit System and the Dawn of Surveillance State Capitalism, 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal

The frequent coauthors with whom Milhaupt has collaborated include Lauren Yu-Hsin Lin, Zenichi Shishido, Ronald J. Gilson, Michael T. Callahan, and Gen Goto.

Milhaupt has published extensively in the following venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Oxford Review of Economic Policy
  • The Journal of Legal Studies
  • The China Quarterly
  • Theoretical Inquiries in Law

Best Publications

  • WE ARE THE (NATIONAL) CHAMPIONS: UNDERSTANDING THE MECHANISMS OF STATE CAPITALISM IN CHINA

    Li-Wen Lin;Curtis J. Milhaupt

  • Law & Capitalism: What Corporate Crises Reveal about Legal Systems and Economic Development around the World

    Curtis J. Milhaupt;Katharina Pistor

  • The Dark Side of Private Ordering: An Institutional and Empirical Analysis of Organized Crime

    Curtis J. Milhaupt;Mark D. West

  • Sovereign Wealth Funds and Corporate Governance: A Minimalist Response to the New Mercantilism

    Ronald J. Gilson;Curtis J. Milhaupt

  • Beyond Ownership: State Capitalism and the Chinese Firm

    Curtis J. Milhaupt;Wentong Zheng

  • Choice as Regulatory Reform: The Case of Japanese Corporate Governance

    Ronald J. Gilson;Curtis J. Milhaupt

  • Reputational Sanctions in China's Securities Market

    Benjamin L. Liebman;Curtis J. Milhaupt

  • Creative Norm Destruction: The Evolution of Nonlegal Rules in Japanese Corporate Governance

    Curtis J. Milhaupt

  • Re-examining Legal Transplants: The Director's Fiduciary Duty in Japanese Corporate Law

    Hideki Kanda;Curtis J. Milhaupt

  • In the Shadow of Delaware?: The Rise of Hostile Takeovers in Japan

    Curtis J. Milhaupt

  • The evolution of hostile takeover regimes in developed and emerging markets: an analytical framework

    John Armour;Jack B. Jacobs;Curtis J. Milhaupt

  • Japan's Experience with Deposit Insurance and Failing Banks: Implications for Financial Regulatory Design?

    Curtis J. Milhaupt

  • Governance Challenges of Listed State- Owned Enterprises Around the World: National Experiences and a Framework for Reform

    Curtis J. Milhaupt;Mariana Pargendler

  • Economically Benevolent Dictators: Lessons for Developing Democracies

    Ronald J. Gilson;Curtis J. Milhaupt

  • Economic Organizations and Corporate Governance in Japan: The Impact of Formal and Informal Rules

    Curtis J. Milhaupt;Mark D. West

  • Cooperation, Conflict, and Convergence in Japanese Finance: Evidence from the "Jusen" Problem

    Curtis J. Milhaupt;Geoffrey P. Miller

  • The Market for Innovation in the United States and Japan: Venture Capital and the Comparative Corporate Governance Debate

    Curtis J. Milhaupt

  • The state as owner—China’s experience

    Curtis J Milhaupt

  • Property Rights in Firms

    Curtis J. Milhaupt

  • Regulating the Visible Hand? The Institutional Implications of Chinese State Capitalism

    Benjamin L. Liebman;Curtis J. Milhaupt

  • A Lost Decade for Japanese Corporate Governance Reform?: What’s Changed, What Hasn’t, and Why

    Curtis J. Milhaupt

  • Re-Examinging Legal Transplants: The Director's Fiduciary Duty in Japanese Corporate Law

    Hideki Kanda;Curtis J. Milhaupt

  • Evaluating Abe's Third Arrow: How Significant are Japan's Recent Corporate Governance Reforms?

    Curtis J. Milhaupt

  • Economic Organizations and Corporate Governance in Japan

    Curtis J. Milhaupt

  • Sovereign Wealth Funds and Corporate Governance: A Minimalist Response to the New Merchantilism

    Ronald J. Gilson;Ronald J. Gilson;Curtis J. Milhaupt

  • Global markets, domestic institutions : corporate law and governance in a new era of cross-border deals

    Curtis J. Milhaupt

  • Regulatory Failure and the Collapse of Japan’s Home Mortgage Lending Industry: A Legal and Economic Analysis

    Curtis Milhaupt;Geoffrey Miller

  • Institutional Change and M&A in Japan: Diversity Through Deals

    Curtis J. Milhaupt;Mark D. West

  • On the (Fleeting) Existence of the Main Bank System and Other Japanese Economic Institutions

    Curtis J. Milhaupt

  • Transforming corporate governance in East Asia

    Kon-Sik Kim;Hideki Kanda;Curtis Milhaupt

  • Nonprofit Organizations as Investor Protection: Economic Theory, and Evidence from East Asia

    Curtis J. Milhaupt

  • Beyond Legal Origin: Rethinking Law's Relationship to the Economy—Implications for Policy

    Curtis J. Milhaupt

  • China as a “National Strategic Buyer”: Towards a Multilateral Regime for Cross-Border M&A

    Jeffrey N. Gordon;Curtis J. Milhaupt

  • Beyond Ownership: State Capitalism and the

    Curtis J. Milhaupt;Wentong Zheng

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronald J. Gilson
Ronald J. Gilson Columbia University
J. Mark Ramseyer
J. Mark Ramseyer Harvard University
Katharina Pistor
Katharina Pistor Columbia University
John Armour
John Armour University of Oxford
Roberta Romano
Roberta Romano Yale University

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