Competition for Corporate Charters and the Lesson of Takeover Statutes
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Fact and Fiction in Corporate Law and Governance
INTRODUCTION..................................................................................................... 1325 I. CONTRACTING AT THE IPO STAGE ................................................................. 1331 A. IPO Charters and Takeover Defenses ...................................................... 1332 B. Innovation, Diversity, and the “Plain Vanilla” Charter ......................
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