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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Max Planck Research Award Regulating international financial markets

Overview

Katharina Pistor is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within the social sciences, with a particular focus on law, economics, and finance. The main fields of study include Social Sciences and Economics, Econometrics and Finance. More specifically, primary subfields of study involve Law, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Finance, and Political Science and International Relations.

The research topics Katharina Pistor engages with cover several dimensions of law and economics, including:

  • Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
  • Legal principles and applications
  • Judicial and Constitutional Studies
  • Legal and Policy Issues
  • Legal and Constitutional Studies
  • Comparative and International Law Studies
  • Insurance and Financial Risk Management

Their recent scholarly contributions include papers published in various academic journals. Notable recent papers are:

  • Statehood in the digital age, 2020, Constellations
  • The value of law, 2020, Theory and Society
  • Law's Elasticity An Inquiry into the Relation of Law and Power in Finance, 2021, European Journal of Sociology
  • The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality - Core Themes, 2021, Accounting Economics and Law - A Convivium
  • Theorizing Beyond "The Code of Capital": A Reply, 2020, Accounting Economics and Law - A Convivium

Frequent publication venues for Katharina Pistor include:

  • Accounting Economics and Law - A Convivium
  • Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht
  • Constellations
  • Theory and Society
  • European Journal of Sociology

Collaboration with other researchers is also part of their academic activity. Notable frequent co-authors include Jonathan Chalier and Michaël Fœssel.

In addition to articles, Katharina Pistor has contributed to book publications. Their upcoming book titled The Law of Capitalism and How to Transform It is to be published by Yale University Press in 2025.

Recognition for their work includes receiving the Max Planck Research Award in 2012 for work related to regulating international financial markets.

Best Publications

  • Economic development, legality, and the transplant effect

    Daniel Berkowitz;Daniel Berkowitz;Katharina Pistor;Jean-Francois Richard

  • Law and finance in transition economies

    Katharina Pistor;Martin Raiser;Stanislaw Gelfer

  • The Transplant Effect

    Daniel Berkowitz;Katharina Pistor;Jean-Francois Richard

  • Governing Stock Markets in Transition Economies: Lessons from China

    Katharina Pistor;Chenggang Xu

  • Trade, Law, and Product Complexity

    Daniel Berkowitz;Johannes Moenius;Katharina Pistor

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

    Curtis J. Milhaupt;Katharina Pistor

  • Economic Development, Legality and the Transplant Effect

    Katharina Pistor;Daniel Berkowitz;Jean-Francois Richard

  • The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality

    Katharina Pistor

  • Legal institutionalism : Capitalism and the constitutive role of law

    Simon Francis Deakin;David Gindis;Geoffrey M Hodgson;Kainan Huang

  • Patterns of legal change: shareholder and creditor rights in transition economies

    Katharina Pistor

  • A legal theory of finance

    Katharina Pistor

  • The standardization of law and its effect on developing economies

    Katharina Pistor

  • Law and Finance in Transition Economies

    Katharina Pistor;Martin Raiser;Stanislaw Gelfer

  • The evolution of corporate law: a cross-country comparison

    Katharina Pistor;Yoram Keinan;Jan Kleinheisterkamp;Mark D. West

  • The Rule Of Law And Economic Reform In Russia

    Jeffrey D. Sachs;Katharina Pistor

  • Governing Emerging Stock Markets: legal vs administrative governance

    Katharina Pistor;Chenggang Xu

  • Legal Ground Rules in Coordinated and Liberal Market Economies

    Katharina Pistor

  • Exit and voice after mass privatization: The case of Russia

    Roman Frydman;Katharina Pistor;Andrzej Rapaczynski

  • Incomplete Law – A Conceptual and Analytical Framework and its Application to the Evolution of Financial Market Regulation

    Katharina Pistor;Chenggang Xu

  • Patterns of Legal Change: Shareholder and Creditor Rights in Transition Economies

    Katharina Pistor

  • Supply and demand for contract enforcement in Russia: Courts, arbitration, and private enforcement

    Katharina Pistor

  • Legal Institutions and International Trade Flows

    Daniel Berkowitz;Johannes Moenius;Katharina Pistor

  • Investing in insider-dominated firms : a study of Russian voucher privatization funds

    Roman Frydman;Katharina Pistor;Andrzej Rapaczynski

  • Evolution of Corporate Law and the Transplant Effect: Lessons from Six Countries

    Katharina Pistor;Yoram Keinan;Jan Kleinheisterkamp;Mark D. West

  • Host's Dilemma Rethinking EU Banking Regulation in Light of the Global Crisis

    Katharina Pistor

  • The evolution of corporate law

    Jan Kleinheisterkamp;Yoram Keinan;Katharina Pistor;Mark D. West

  • Fiduciary duty in transitional civil law jurisdictions: lessons from the incomplete law theory

    Katharina Pistor;Cheng-Gang Xu

  • Legal Institutionalism: Capitalism and the Constitutive Role of Law

    Simon Deakin;David Gindis;Geoffrey M. Hodgson;Huang Kainan

  • Law Enforcement under Incomplete Law: Theory and Evidence from Financial Market Regulation 1

    Chenggang Xu;Katharina Pistor

  • Law as a Determinant of Equity Market Development: The Experience of Transition Economies

    Katharina Pistor

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus Roth
Markus Roth Technical University of Darmstadt
Simon Deakin
Simon Deakin University of Cambridge
Klaus J. Hopt
Klaus J. Hopt Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
Curtis J. Milhaupt
Curtis J. Milhaupt Stanford University
Luca Enriques
Luca Enriques Bocconi University
Henry Hansmann
Henry Hansmann Yale University
Reinier Kraakman
Reinier Kraakman Harvard University
Gunther Teubner
Gunther Teubner Goethe University Frankfurt
Dirk Helbing
Dirk Helbing ETH Zurich
Olivier De Schutter
Olivier De Schutter Université Catholique de Louvain

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