 Global corporate charter competitionWilliam J. Moon Chapter 12 in A Research Agenda for Corporate Law, 2023, pp 231-250 from Edward Elgar Publishing Abstract: This chapter highlights the broader scholarly agenda for studying the global dimensions of corporate law. While a rich body of comparative corporate law scholarship illuminates how corporate law has converged (or resisted convergence), relatively less attention has been paid to understanding whether firms shop for corporate law internationally. The latter phenomenon, which this chapter refers to as global corporate charter competition, raises a host of fascinating descriptive and normative questions. Consistent with the classic race to the top framework, legal regime shopping enabled by entrepreneurial foreign nations can strip away parochial local rules and spur legal innovation. But it can also undermine mandatory domestic rules designed to effectuate important social policy, as the traditional race to the bottom proponents have asserted. After providing an overview of the emerging international market for corporate charters, this chapter highlights a series of novel and unresolved legal issues ripe for future scholarship. Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Law - Academic; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:20429_12 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing |
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