EW Barker Centre for Law & Business
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Mathias Maximilian Siems
Research Interest Mathias Siems is a Professor of Commercial Law at Durham University. He is also a Research Associate at the Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge, a Research Associate at the London Centre for Corporate Governance and Ethics, Birkbeck, University of London, and an Invited Fellow at the Maastricht European Law Institute. He graduated from the Universities of Munich and Edinburgh and has held various visiting positions at universities in Europe, Asia and North America. He has published widely on topics of company law and comparative law. His work has been supported by various scholarships and grants. He was a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard Law School and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute. Support for a recent comparative project was provided by the Philip Leverhulme Prize 2010. At the University of Cambridge he has participated in two projects, funded by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council, on the relationship between Law, Finance and Development. At NUS, he will conduct further comparative research on the relationship between company law and financial development. His line of research has both a qualitative and a quantitative dimension. In the qualitative part, he has been involved in the interviews that have examined the relationship between legal institutions and development in China. In the quantitative part, the project compiled a dataset on the legal rules of shareholder protection, covering 30 countries and the years 1990-2013. A recent co-authored paper analysed this new dataset from a descriptive perspective; his future work will evaluate how it relates to other measures of shareholder protection, such as the World Bank's minority shareholder protection index, and whether such measurements can be shown to be associated with stock market development. |
