Membership network/ Intl. scientific non-profit association - forum for dialogue between academics, legislators and practitioners, focusing on governance issues
Congratulations to Mariana Pargendler (FGV Law School in São Paulo); winner of the 2020 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton Prize for best paper in the ECGI Law series in 2019:
#nationalism
#corpgov
11 -13 November | Directors’ Duties and Sustainable Corporate Governance (online) workshop, in response to
@EU_Commission
study finding focus on short-term benefits of shareholders rather than long-term interests of the company.
#corpgov
Register at:
✨We are delighted to announce the appointment of 56 new ECGI research members!
We now support the work of 382 research members from around the🌏sharing evidence on
#corpgov
&
#stewardship
for public benefit.
👏Please join us in welcoming them!
Know more:
🌟Meet our 2024 ECGI Fellow, Jill Fisch
🔍She is the Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law and co-director of the Institute for Law and Economics at the
@pennlaw
,
@Penn
🕵️♂️ She is conducting ongoing experimental research into retail investor decision-making
🌐Her
Join us on 🗓️29-30 Oct to explore the broad influence of Henry Hansmann’s book📒‘The Ownership of Enterprise’ over 25 years through panel discussions & presentations of original papers by professors of
#law
,
#business
&
#economics
.
#corpgov
➡️Register:
The “Study on directors’ duties and sustainable corporate governance” report by EY does not define the problem properly, presents inapposite evidence, fails to address, or even cite the relevant academic research, and neglects elementary problems with its policy proposals.
Mark J. Roe, Jesse M. Fried
@jessefried
, Charles C.Y. Wang, Holger Spamann
@Harvard_Law
: The European Commission's Sustainable Corporate Governance Report: A Critique
Programme details are now available on the ECGI website for the 24-hour Global Webinar on The COVID-19 Crisis and Its Aftermath: Corporate Governance Implications and Policy Challenges
#corpgov
#covid19
The European Corporate Governance Institute
@ecgiorg
is delighted to announce the appointment of Prof. Luca Enriques
@lucaenriques
@OxfordBLB
to the board
👏Join us in congratulating José-Luis Peydró, Andrea Polo & Enrico Sette, winners of the 🏆2021 ECGI Finance Prize for the best working paper in 2020!
🗓️Save the Date: The paper will be presented (online) on 28 Oct 2021
🔍Read more:
Event Report: Global Webinar on the COVID-19 Crisis and its Aftermath (16 April). A summary report from the 24-hour webinar & videos of the sessions are now available on the ECGI website:
#COVID
ー19
#COVID19
#globalwebinar
#corpgov
#crisis
15 October (16:00 CEST)| Register for the 2020 Wallenberg Lecture delivered by Nobel Laureate, Prof. Oliver Hart (
@Harvard
) "The Relative Effectiveness of Exit and Voice Strategies"
#stewardship
#economics
Congratulations to Lucian Bebchuk (Harvard Law and ECGI) and Scott Hirst (Boston University, and Harvard Law), winners of the 2019 Cleary Gottlieb Steen Hamilton Prize for the best paper in the ECGI Law series in 2018:
#IndexFunds
#PassiveFunds
🗓️Join the
@MillsteinCenter
@Columbia
Law School and ECGI for a virtual conference exploring a new model for public company boards (Board 3.0) that would use features of the private equity portfolio company governance model. ↪️Register:
#Boards
#Directors
🌐[Online workshop] “The History of the Corporation” on 10 June 2021. The workshop will journey through Imperial Russia, turn of the century Egypt and China, Edwardian Britain and the Gilded Age US.↪️Register:
#EconomicHistory
#corporations
#shareholders
“The Role of Corporations in Society: A Global & Historical Perspective”
Moderator: Colin Mayer
@UniofOxford
Panelists: Anat Admati
@anatadmati
@StanfordLaw
, Naomi Lamoreaux
@YaleLawSch
, Ron Harris (Tel Aviv University), William Goetzmann
📽️ Watch live:
🌿🌏The basic idea of a ‘
#GreenPill
’ is that the firm should give a binding undertaking to make a payment conditional on non-fulfilment of its green commitment ~ John Armour,
@lucaenriques
&
@ThomWetzer
.
➡️Read the full article:
ECGI appoints 5 new Fellows: Philippe Aghion (LSE and College de France), Marianne Bertrand (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business), Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law School), Edward Rock (NYU Law), Paola Sapienza (Kellogg School of Management)
👥Join us to congratulate Dorothy S. Lund & Elizabeth Pollman, winners of the 2022
@ClearyGottlieb
Prize 🏆 for the best ECGI Law Working Paper in 2021!
🗓️Save the date: The prize will be awarded in
#Milan
on 16 Sep 2022 (public event).
➡️Read the paper:
#ESG
discussion panel with Wim Bartels (Corporate Reporting Dialogue), Costanza Consolandi (University of Siena), Carola van Lamoen (Robeco), Eszter Vitorino (The Global Reporting Initiative), Elroy Dimson (Cambridge Judge Business School), Tamas Barko (University of Mannheim)
REGISTRATION: Ep.2 | ECGI Spotlight Series: "For Whom is the Corporation Managed in 2020?: The Debate over
#CorporatePurpose
" Monday, 14 September 2020 | 10:00 EDT | 16:00 CEST (60 mins)
@nyulaw
✨ECGI is delighted to announce the appointment of 50 new research members to its global network.👥
We look forward to seeing the new members’ contribution to ECGI’s research activities.
#Research
#CorporateGovernance
#Stewardship
📢CALL FOR PAPERS: "The Law and Finance of Private Equity and Venture Capital"
Conference organizers invite researchers, especially in law & finance related to
#privateequity
(PE) &
#venturecapital
(VC) & those who hold a full-time academic appointment but have not yet received
🎉 The first issue of the ECGI blog is out now! The authors, Herman Daems, René Stulz and Jennifer Hill discuss the concept of '
#ResponsibleCapitalism
' and raise questions about the best path to achieving responsible goals.
Subscribe here 👉
#corpgov
[Register]
#CEO
Compensation:
Evidence From the Field (🗓️12 Oct 2021)
📘🔍New research by Alex Edmans, Tom Gosling
@GoslingTj
& Dirk Jenter (
@LBS
) reveals most directors will sacrifice shareholder value to avoid
#CEOpay
controversy.
✍️Register here:
📚Book Announcement: "A Research Agenda for Corporate Law" edited by Christopher M. Bruner
@UGASchoolofLaw
and Marc Moore
@ucl
and
@UNDLondon
(
@NotreDame
).
.
"For those who want to know what direction
#corporatelaw
theory is heading, this stimulating collection of essays by
🌟Meet our 2024 ECGI Fellow, Mariassunta Giannetti
🔍She is the Katarina Martinson Prof of Finance at the
@handels_sse
and
@cepr_org
research fellow
🕵️♂️She serves as an associate editor for several journals, director of the
@EFA_org
, the Financial Intermediation Research
16 April: The
#COVID19
Crisis and Its Aftermath: Corporate Governance Implications and Policy Challenges - a 24 hour global webinar hosted throughout: Australia, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, China, Israel, Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom, & USA
#corpgov
👏Join us to congratulate
@joseazar
& Xavier Vives (
@iesebschool
), winners of the 2023
@intesasanpaolo
ECGI Finance Prize🏆for the Best Paper in the ECGI Finance Working Paper Series in 2022!
🗓️Save the date: The prize will be awarded in Copenhagen on 22 Sep 2023 (public event).
#Corporatelaw
should have a different focus for central and peripheral firms. Assumptions underlying traditional focus of corporate law is on aligning managers’ preferences to the interests of shareholders no longer hold true.
#stakeholdercapitalism
Toni Wienholz
@AllenOvery
awarding the prize for best paper in the ECGI Working Paper Law Series in 2017 to Prof. John C. Coffee
@ColumbiaLaw
for his paper on “The Agency Costs of Activism: Information Leakage, Thwarted Majorities, and the Public Morality”
Congratulations to Patrick Bolton (Columbia University), Tao Li (University of Florida), Enrichetta Ravina (Northwestern), Howard Rosenthal (NYU), winners of the 2019 Aberdeen Standard Investments Prize for best paper in the ECGI Finance series in 2018:
Event Report: Global Shareholder Stewardship Conference. A detailed review of 19 different national stewardship codes/principles, the EU Shareholder Rights Directive (SRD II), the EFAMA stewardship code & the ICGN Global Stewardship Principles.
#GSSProject
James D. Cox
@DukeLaw
, Kenneth J. Martin
@nmsucob
, Randall S. Thomas
@vanderbiltlaw
: The Paradox of Delaware’s “Tools at Hand” Doctrine: An Empirical Investigation
👥Join us to congratulate Andrey Malenko, Nadya Malenko & Chester S. Spatt, winners of the 2022
@intesasanpaolo
Finance Prize🏆for the best working paper in 2021!
🗓️Save the date: The prize will be awarded in Milan on 16 Sep 2022 (public event).
Know more:
23 October | 'Rethinking Stewardship', (online) Conference hosted by the Ira M.
@MillsteinCenter
for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership,
@ColumbiaLaw
. Register at:
🙏Thank you to our speakers, sponsors & all the participants in-person & online for the "Short-Termism in European Corporate Governance" conference organised by
@UAntwerpen
,
@Harvard_Law
&
@ecgiorg
and supported by
@Gimv
.
📽️Links to the recordings will be made available soon on
📚Book Announcement: "The Art and Practice of Corporate Governance" by David Larcker
@StanfordCorpGov
& Brian Tayan
@StanfordGSB
"This book is a must-read for executives, directors, shareholders, and anyone interested in learning how companies are run & how to improve their
👏 Join us in congratulating Dionysia Katelouzou & Mathias Siems
@siemslegal
, winners of the 🏆2021
@ClearyGottlieb
Law Prize for the best ECGI Law Working Paper in 2020!
🗓️Save the Date: The paper will be presented (online) on 28 Oct 2021
🔍Read more:
🌏 The 6th Annual GCGC Conference is hosted by
@YaleLawSch
:
🔹Global initiative to bring together the best research in
#law
,
#economics
, and
#finance
relating to
#corpgov
🔹A scholarly collaboration across three major continents
✍️ Register:
'Corporate greenwashing: The lawyers are coming', by
@BenFranta
: "The spectre of greenwashing liability continues to grow... as lawyers (& the broader public) get wise to the fact that not all that appears green is what it seems.”
Read & share 👉
#CorpGov
Panel discussion on 'The Future of Shareholder Meetings: Participation in Corporate Voting' with Moqi Xu (LSE), Niels Lemmers (Dutch Investors Association), Christoph Van Der Elst (Tilburg University) and Christian Strenger (HHL Liepzig)
#ICGN2019
"Which Aspects of
#CorporateGovernance
Matter? Evidence from
#EmergingMarkets
" presented by Bernie Black (Northwestern University School of Law). Discussion by Johan Sulaeman (National University of Singapore)
The 4th Annual Conference of the Ibero- American Institute for
#Law
and
#Finance
will be held in Sao Paulo (
#Brazil
), on December 13-14, 2018. Reduced fee for ECGI members, details here:
⏳3-4 June | 8th Annual
#GCGC
Conference hosted by
@UniofOxford
🌍 12 leading universities across the US, Asia & Europe
👉 Aim to attract current research papers of the highest scholarly quality in the field of
#corpgov
🔷 Register🔜
#GCGC2022
#ecgievent
📢The 8⃣th Annual GCGC Conference will be hosted by
@UniofOxford
| 3-4 June 2022
The Global Corporate Governance Colloquia is a global initiative to bring together the best research in
#law
,
#economics
&
#finance
relating to
#corpgov
Register➡️
#GCGC2022
📚Book Announcement: "The Bankers’ New Clothes" by Anat Admati
@anatadmati
(
@Stanford
) and Martin Hellwig (
@eeg_mpi
).
"The book debunks the false and misleading claims of bankers, regulators, politicians, academics, and others who oppose effective reform, and they explain how
🗨️The private cost to the altruistically motivated shareholder should be minimal because of diversification, yet it is rarely the case. ~ 👥 Jeffrey Gordon
@ColumbiaLaw
🔍Read the full article:
👏👏Thank you for your questions and attendance today. Links to the recordings will be available on the event page in the coming days:
We look forward to seeing you again!
[LIVE] "The 2023 ECGI Annual Meeting"
ECGI Working Paper Prize Sessions
Join us in congratulating the
@intesasanpaolo
ECGI Finance Prize🏆 winners,
@joseazar
& Xavier Vives (
@iesebschool
).
They won the best paper in the ECGI Finance Working Paper Series in 2022.
They presented
📝 New study finds: "Shareholders place a voting premium on diversity".
👥Authors: Ian Gow
@unimelb
, David Larcker
@StanfordRock
and Edward Watts
@Yale
🔎 Paper:
Shareholder welfare maximization can better explain observed behavior on
#ESG
shareholder engagement. It is hard to understand this behavior using the dominant
#corporategovernance
paradigm based on shareholder value maximization.
"Board declassification and firm value: Have
#shareholders
and
#boards
really destroyed billions in value?" Presented by Emiliano Catan (NYU Law School) and discussed by Arpit Gupta (NYU Stern)
#GCGC2018
📢 Call For Papers: Researchers are invited to submit recent papers, or extended abstracts on corporate governance for the Global Corporate Governance Colloquium 2022.
Conference
@UniofOxford
| 3-4 June 2022
Deadline: 29 Oct 2021 (at midnight CEST)
Info:
📢 Call For Papers (Seoul 2023): Researchers are invited to submit recent papers on
#corporategovernance
for the Global Corporate Governance Colloquium 2023
#GCGC
.
Hosted by
@SNUnow
| 🗓️16-17 June 2023
⏳Deadline: 28 Oct 2022
➡️Info:
#GCGC2023
#ecgievent
🤷♀️ How – if at all – do institutional investors and board directors incorporate
#climate
related issues in their investment decision making and their oversight responsibilities? Please take part in this short survey for
@ProfEricTalley
and
@LeaderXXchange
@ColumbiaLaw
If you are an institutional
#investor
or a board
#director
please participate in this global survey on
#climate
risk management. It is an anonymous survey, and takes only 15 minutes to complete!
#corpgov