ABOUT
Mark J. Roe is the David Berg Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he teaches corporate law and corporate bankruptcy. Professor Roe wrote Missing the Target: Why Stock Market Short-Termism Is Not the Problem (Oxford, 2022); Strong Managers, Weak Owners: The Political Roots of American Corporate Finance (Princeton, 1994), and Political Determinants of Corporate Governance (Oxford, 2003). Academic articles include Containing Systemic Risk by Taxing Banks Properly (Yale Journal of Regulation, 2017) (with Michael Troege), Corporate Structural Degradation Due to Too-Big-to-Fail Finance (University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2014), and The Derivatives Market’s Payments Priorities as Financial Crisis Accelerator (Stanford Law Review, 2011). His commentary has appeared in the Financial Times, the New York Times Dealbook, Project Syndicate, and the Wall Street Journal.
