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William Wilson Bratton

William Wilson Bratton

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D-Index
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Citations
2635
World Ranking
375
National Ranking
259

Overview

William Wilson Bratton is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields including Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Social Sciences, and Business, Management and Accounting. The subfields of their work include Urban Studies, Finance, Economics and Econometrics, Accounting, and Marketing.

The research topics covered by Bratton focus on areas such as Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism; Housing Market and Economics; Cultural Industries and Urban Development; Global Urban Networks and Dynamics; Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends; Sharing Economy and Platforms; and Banking stability, regulation, and efficiency.

Bratton has recently published several papers across various academic venues. These include:

  • Financial information, physical proximity and COVID: The experience of Asian sell-side equity research analysts, 2022, Geoforum
  • Theory, explanation, and economics in financial geographies, 2024, Dialogues in Human Geography
  • Financial centres and information hierarchies: Insights from the geographies of sell-side equity research, 2023, Progress in Economic Geography
  • Shareholder Primacy versus Shareholder Accountability, 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Acute proximity and the acquisition of specialised financial knowledge: evidence from sell-side equity research and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2024, Finance and Space

The main publication venues for Bratton's work feature the SSRN Electronic Journal, Dialogues in Human Geography, Geoforum, Progress in Economic Geography, and Finance and Space.

This researcher frequently collaborates with Dariusz Wójcik, with whom they have co-authored multiple publications.

Best Publications

  • Comparative Corporate Governance and the Theory of the Firm : The Case Against Global Cross-Reference

    J.A. McCahery;W.W. Bratton

  • Regulatory Competition, Regulatory Capture, and Corporate Self-Regulation

    William W. Bratton;Joseph A. McCahery

  • Enron and the Dark Side of Shareholder Value

    William Wilson Bratton

  • The New Economic Theory of the Firm: Critical Perspectives from History

    William Wilson Bratton

  • The Case against Shareholder Empowerment

    William W. Bratton;Michael L. Wachter

  • Hedge Funds and Governance Targets

    William Wilson Bratton

  • The Equilibrium Content of Corporate Federalism

    William W. Bratton;Joseph A. McCahery

  • Nexus of Contracts Corporation: A Critical Appraisal

    William Wilson Bratton

  • How does corporate mobility affect lawmaking? A comparative analysis

    William W. Bratton;Joseph A. Mccahery;Erik P.M. Vermeulen

  • The Academic Tournament over Executive Compensation

    William Wilson Bratton

  • Tax Coordination and Tax Competition in the European Union: Evaluating the Code of Conduct on Business Taxation

    J.A. McCahery;W.W. Bratton

  • Enron, Sarbanes-Oxley and Accounting: Rules versus Principles versus Rents

    William Wilson Bratton

  • An Inquiry into the Efficiency of the Limited Liability Company: Of Theory of the Firm and Regulatory Competition

    William W. Bratton;Joseph A. McCahery

  • Bond Covenants and Creditor Protection: Economics and Law, Theory and Practice, Substance and Process

    William W. Bratton

  • Shareholder Primacy's Corporatist Origins: Adolf Berle and the Modern Corporation

    William Wilson Bratton;Michael L. Wachter

  • Sovereign Debt Reform and the Best Interest of Creditors

    William W. Bratton;G. Mitu Gulati

  • Berle and Means Reconsidered at the Century's Turn

    William Wilson Bratton

  • Venture Capital on the Downside: Preferred Stock and Corporate Control

    William Wilson Bratton

  • The New Economics of Jurisdictional Competition: Devolutionary Federalism in a Second-Best World

    J.A. McCahery;W.W. Bratton

  • Comparative Corporate Governance and the Theory of the Firm: The Case Against Global Cross Reference

    William W. Bratton;William W. Bratton;Joseph A. McCahery

  • Incomplete Contracts Theories of the Firm and Comparative Corporate Governance

    William W. Bratton;Joseph A. McCahery

  • Comparative Corporate Governance and Barriers to Global Cross Reference

    J.A. McCahery;W.W. Bratton

  • The Economic Structure of the Post-Contractual Corporation

    William Wilson Bratton

  • Corporate Debt Relationships: Legal Theory in a Time of Restructuring

    William Wilson Bratton

  • Private Equity’s Three Lessons for Agency Theory

    William Wilson Bratton

  • Confronting the Ethical Case Against the Ethical Case for Constituency Rights

    William Wilson Bratton

  • Treatment Differences and Political Realities in the GAAP-IFRS Debate

    Lawrence A. Cunningham;William W. Bratton;William W. Bratton

  • Bond and loan covenants, theory and practice

    William W. Bratton

  • At the Conjunction of Love and Money: Comment on Julie A. Nelson, Does Profit-Seeking Rule Out Love? Evidence (or Not) from Economics and Law

    William Wilson Bratton

  • The Interpretation of Contracts Governing Corporate Debt Relationships

    William Wilson Bratton

  • Self-Regulation, Normative Choice, and the Structure of Corporate Fiduciary Law

    William Wilson Bratton

  • The Economics and Jurisprudence of Convertible Bonds

    William Wilson Bratton

  • Sovereign Debt Restructuring and the Best Interest of Creditors

    William W. Bratton;William W. Bratton;G. Mitu Gulati

  • The Modern Corporation and Private Property Revisited: Gardiner Means and the Administered Price

    William Wilson Bratton

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert J. Bennett
Robert J. Bennett University of Cambridge
G. Mitu Gulati
G. Mitu Gulati University of Virginia
Margaret M. Blair
Margaret M. Blair Vanderbilt University

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