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Margaret M. Blair is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States and has contributed to research primarily within economics, econometrics, and finance. Their research spans several interconnected subfields, including management science and operations research, economics and econometrics, finance, law, and strategy and management.

Their scholarly output includes recent papers such as "Why Lynn Stout Took Up the Sword Against Share Value Maximization" published in 2020 in Accounting Economics and Law - A Convivium, and "How Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward Clarified Corporate Law" from 2021 in SSRN Electronic Journal. These publications reflect a focus on corporate governance and legal principles. Another related work listed is "The Moral Boundary of the Firm," published in 2024 in SSRN Electronic Journal, co-authored with Michael P. Vandenbergh.

Research topics explored by Margaret M. Blair cover areas including auction theory and applications, law, economics, and judicial systems, banking stability, regulation, efficiency, legal principles and applications, and corporate governance and law. These topics indicate a blend of legal and financial perspectives in their work.

Margaret M. Blair has collaborated frequently with scholars such as Michael P. Vandenbergh, J. Isaac Miller, and Jonathan M. Gilligan. This collaborative network coincides with venues where their work is frequently published, including the SSRN Electronic Journal and Accounting Economics and Law - A Convivium.

Their research outputs are characterized by published contributions to both academic journals and electronic platforms that emphasize law and economics intersections. The focus on judicial systems and corporate governance highlights an interdisciplinary approach combining legal frameworks with financial and economic analysis.

Best Publications

  • A Team Production Theory of Corporate Law

    Margaret M. Blair;Lynn A. Stout

  • Trust, Trustworthiness, and the Behavioral Foundations of Corporate Law

    Margaret M. Blair;Lynn A. Stout

  • Director Accountability and the Mediating Role of the Corporate Board

    Margaret M. Blair;Lynn A. Stout

  • Unseen wealth : report of the Brookings Task Force on Intangibles

    Margaret M. Blair;Steven M. H. Wallman;Brookings Task Force on Intangibles

  • Employees and corporate governance

    Margaret M. Blair;Mark J. Roe

  • For whom should corporations be run?: An economic rationale for stakeholder management

    Margaret M. Blair

  • Relational Investing And Firm Performance

    Sanjai Bhagat;Bernard Black;Margaret Blair

  • Law and Economics

    Directors W. Kip Viscusi;Jeremy Atack;Margaret Blair;Thomas Carr

  • A Team Production Theory of Corporate Law

    Margaret M. Blair;Lynn A. Stout

  • Employee Ownership: An Unstable Form or a Stabilizing Force?

    Margaret M. Blair;Douglas L. Kruse;Joseph Blasi

  • Specific Investment: Explaining Anomalies in Corporate Law

    Margaret M. Blair;Lynn A. Stout

  • Firm-Specific Human Capital and Theories of the Firm

    Margaret M. Blair

  • The New Relationship: Human Capital in the American Corporation

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  • Corporate Personhood and the Corporate Persona

    Margaret M. Blair

  • A Team Production Theory of Corporate Law

    Margaret M. Blair;Lynn A. Stout

  • The deal decade : what takeovers and leveraged buyouts mean for corporate governance

    Margaret M. Blair

  • Rethinking Assumptions Behind Corporate Governance

    Margaret M. Blair

  • The New Role for Assurance Services in Global Commerce

    Margaret M. Blair;Cynthia A. Williams;Li-Wen Lin

  • Trust, Trustworthiness, and the Behavioral Foundations of Corporate Law

    Lynn A. Stout;Margaret M. Blair

  • An Economic Perspective on the Notion of ‘Human Capital’

    Margaret M. Blair

  • Wealth Creation and Wealth Sharing: A Colloquium on Corporate Governance and Investments in Human Capital

    Margaret M. Blair

  • Locking in Capital: What Corporate Law Achieved for Business Organizers in the Nineteenth Century

    Margaret M. Blair

  • Shareholder Value, Corporate Governance and Corporate Performance: A Post-Enron Reassessment of the Conventional Wisdom

    Margaret M. Blair

  • Of corporations, courts, personhood, and morality

    Margaret M. Blair

  • Boards of Directors as Mediating Hierarchs

    Margaret M. Blair

  • The Neglected Benefits of the Corporate Form: Entity Status and the Separation of Asset Ownership from Control

    Margaret M. Blair

  • Reforming Corporate Governance: What History Can Teach Us

    Margaret M. Blair

  • The Roles of Standardization, Certification, and Assurance Services in Global Commerce

    Margaret M. Blair;Cynthia A. Williams;Li-Wen Lin

  • Firm-Specific Human Capital and the Theory of the Firm

    Margaret M. Blair

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernard S. Black
Bernard S. Black Northwestern University
William Wilson Bratton
William Wilson Bratton University of Pennsylvania
Simon Deakin
Simon Deakin University of Cambridge
Mark J. Roe
Mark J. Roe Harvard University

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