Katharina Pistor

Professor of Law
Columbia University

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WRITINGS (in chronological order)

Publications in Journals (including accepted papers)

  1. “The Law and the Non-Law”, Michigan Journal of International Law (2006) Vol. 27, No. 3.
  1. Dan Berkowitz and Johannes Moenius, "Trade, Law and Product Complexity", (2006) Review of Economics and Statistics, 2006 (March).

  2. with Dan Berkowitz and Johannes Moenius, “Legal Institutions and International Trade Flows”, University of Michigan International Law Review, (2005) Vol. 26 (1): 163-198.
  1. with Chenggang Xu, “Governing Stock Markets in Transition Economies: Lessons from China” American Review of Law and Economics, (2005) Vol. 7 (1) pp. 184-210.
  1. with  Chenggang Xu, “Incomplete of Law” New York University Journal of International Law and Politics(2003) 35 (4): 931-1013.
  1. with Yoram Keinan, Jan Kleinheisterkamp and Mark West, "Innovation in Corporate Law", 31 (4) Journal of Comparative Economics (2003), 676-694.
  1. with Dan Berkowitz, Jean-François Richard, “The Transplant Effect", American Journal of Comparative Law (2003) 51 (2): 163-203.
  1. with Dan Berkowitz, Jean-François Richard, “Economic Development, Legality, and the Transplant Effect,” European Economic Review (2003) 47: 165-195.
  1. with Yoram Keinan, Jan Kleinheisterkamp and Mark West, "Legal Evolution and the Transplant Effect", World Bank Research Observer (2003) 18 (1): 89-112.
  1. with Yoram Keinan, Jan Kleinheisterkamp and Mark West, "The Evolution of Corporate Law", Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law (2002): 23 (4) 791-871.
  1. “The Standardization of Law and Its Effect on Developing Economies,” American Journal of Comparative Law (2002) 50: 101-134.
  1. “The Demand for Constitutional Law,” Constitutional Political Economy (2002) 13: 73-87.
  1. with Klaus J. Hopt “Company Groups in Transition Economies: A Case for Regulatory Intervention?,” European Business Organization Law Review (2001) 2: 1-43.
  1. with Martin Raiser and Stanislaw Gelfer, “Law and Finance in Transition Economies,” The Economics of Transition (2000) 8: 325-368.
  1. “Patterns of Legal Change: Shareholder and Creditor Rights in Transition Economies,” European Business Organization Law Review (2000) 1: 59-110.
  1. “The Supply and Demand for Law: Comment on Hendley,” East European Constitutional Review (1999) 8: 105-108
  1. “Supply and Demand for Contract Enforcement in Russia: Courts, Arbitration, and Private Enforcement,” Review of Central and East European Law (1996) 22: 55-87.

 

Chapters in Books (including forthcoming chapters)

  1. “Legal Ground Rules in Coordinated and Liberal Market Economies”, in Klaus Hopt, Eddy Wymeersch, Hideki Kanda, Harald Baum, Corporate Governance in Context: Corporations, States and Markets in Europe, Japan, and the United States, Oxford University Press, 2006.

  2. "Enhancing Corporate Governance in the New Member States: Does EU Law Help?" in Bermann, George and Katharina Pistor Law and Governance in an Enlarged Europe, Hart Publishing (2004), 339-368.

  3. with  Chenggang Xu, “Fiduciary Duties in (Transitional) Civil Law Jurisdictions - Lessons from the Incompleteness of Law Theory,” in Mildhaupt, Curtis (ed.), Global Markets, Domestic Institutions: Corporate Governance in a New Era of Cross-Border Deals (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003), 77-106.
  1. “Law as a Determinant for Equity Market Development: the Experience of Transition Economies”, in Murell, Peter (ed.), The Value of Law in Transition Economies”, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001: 249-287.
  1. “The Evolution of Legal Institutions and Economic Regime Change,” Governance, Equity and Global Markets - Proceedings of the Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics in Europe, ed. Pleskovic et al. (Paris: La documentation Française, 2000), 119-128.  
  1. “Codetermination in Germany: A Socio-Political Model with Governance Externalities,” Employees and Corporate Governance, ed. Blair, and Roe (Washington D.C.: Brookings Institute, 1999): 163-193.
  1. “Aktien und Kredite als Instrumente der Unternehmensführung und Unternehmenskontrolle - ein vergleichender Überblick,” Systemtransformation in Mittel- und Osteuropa und ihre Folgen für Banken, Börsen und Kreditsicherheiten, ed. Drobnig et al. (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1998), pp. 109-134.
  1. with Jeffrey D. Sachs “Introduction: Progress, Pitfalls, Scenarios, and Lost Opportunities,” The Rule of Law and Economic Reform in Russia, ed. Sachs, and Pistor (Boulder, Co.: Westview Press, 1997): 1-21.   
  1. with Andrew Spicer, “Investment Funds in Mass Privatization and Beyond,” Between State and Market: Mass Privatization in Transition Economies, ed. Lieberman, Nestor, and Desai (Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 1997).
  1. “Company Law and Corporate Governance in Russia,” The Rule of Law and Economic Reform in Russia, ed. Sachs, and Pistor (Boulder, Co: Westview Press, 1997): 165-187.   
  1. with Roman Frydman and Andrzej Rapaczynski, “Investing in Insider-Dominated Firms: A Study of Russian Voucher Privatization Funds,” Corporate Governance in Central Europe and Russia, ed. Frydman, Gray, and Rapaczynski (Budapest, London, New York: CEU Press, 1996) 1: 187-241.    
  1. with Joel Turkewitz, “Coping with Hydra - State Ownership After Privatization,” Corporate Governance in Central Europe and Russia, ed. Frydman, Gray, and Rapaczynski (Budapest, London, New York: CEU Press, 1996) 2: 192-246. 
  1. “Transfer of Property Rights in Eastern Europe,” in The New Palgrave on Economics and the Law, ed. Newman (London, New York: MacMillan, 1998).

  2. Privatization and Corporate Governance in Russia: An Empirical Study,” Privatization, Conversion and Enterprise Reform in Russia., ed. McFaul, and Pelmutter (Boulder, Co: Westview Press, 1995): 69-84.