Yupana Wiwattanakantang Joins the Board of ECGI
ECGI is delighted to formally announce the appointment of Professor Yupana Wiwattanakantang to the Board of Directors.
19 June 2020
Lucrezia Reichlin appointed as Chair of ECGI
The ECGI Board of Directors is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Lucrezia Reichlin as the new Chair of ECGI succeeding Guy Jubb, the Interim Chair.
21 April 2020
COVID-19 and Corporate Governance: Resources
ECGI is collecting scholarly resources on the topic of COVID-19 and corporate governance to help inform policy decisions and corporate responses to the crisis at hand...
7 April 2020
Codes
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Principles for Responsible Institutional Investors - Japan’s Stewardship Code24 March 2020JapanCustom text: New
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Italian Corporate Governance Code 202031 January 2020ItalyCustom text: New
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UK Stewardship Code 202001 January 2020United KingdomCustom text: New
Events
Mon 13 July 2020
The inaugural seminar in the ECGI Spotlight Series will take place on 13 July 2020. The series will be introduced by the Chair of ECGI, Professor Lucrezia Reichlin and the Executive Director, Professor Marco Becht...
Thu 15 October 2020
This event is co-sponsored by Stockholm School of Economics, the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and the European Corporate Governance Research Foundation (ECGRF). It brings together senior academics and thought-leaders in business to discuss a range of important topics.
Fri 16 October 2020
> Sat 17 October 2020
The Swedish House of Finance (SHoF) and the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) are pleased to invite interested academics and others to attend a conference on Sustainable Finance on October 16-17, 2020.
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Featured ECGI Member
ACCION SOCIAL EMPRESARIAL
After 26 years in the insurance industry, and with extensive diverse international executive experience, Mrs. Gómez-Llorente started a second phase of her career as Independent Non Executive Director.
Having acted as INED at two subsidiaries of the MAPFRE Group, she is currently assessing opportunities in boards with strong corporate goverance culture and a clear ESG orientation.
Featured papers
The Future or Fancy? An Empirical Study of Public Benefit Corporations
The public benefit corporation (“PBC”) is one of the hottest developments in corporate law. The sine qua non of this new form is that directors are required, under their fiduciary obligations, to consider a social purpose beyond the traditional profit-seeking duty. The PBC is thus seen as...
The Law and Practice of Shareholder Inspection Rights: A Comparative Analysis of China and the U.S.
Shareholder inspection rights allow a shareholder to access relevant documents and records of their company, so as to address the problem of information asymmetry inherent in the corporate form, and facilitate the monitoring of the operation of the company and if necessary, the bringing of...
A Survey of Recent Evidence on Boards of Directors and CEO Incentives
Recent corporate governance research reports several major developments. First, researchers have made important progress in adapting statistical methodologies and experimental designs to facilitate causal inference about how governance mechanisms affect firm performance and valuation. The...
Can Stakeholder Orientation Improve Inventory Efficiency? Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment
In this study, we ask if corporate social responsibility (CSR) allows firms facing high business uncertainty to hold less inventory. More specifically, we ask if improved relationship with suppliers can enhance firms’ resilience to negative supply chain shocks, and thereby allow them to carry...
Working papers
Does Common Ownership Explain Higher Oligopolistic Profits?
The stylized fact that grounds much of the recent literature on common ownership is the parallel increase in the profitability of oligopolistic industries and common ownership. Some have argued that the growth in common ownership has caused the...Read more
Bribes and Audit Fees
We exploit the UK Bribery Act of 2010 to test whether the pricing of audit changes with the level of corruption/bribery in the firm’s business environment. Adopting a triple difference design, we show that affected firms operating in countries...Read more
Uncertainty, Access to Debt, and Firm Precautionary Behavior
Better access to debt markets mitigates the effects of uncertainty on corporate policies. We establish this result using the staggered introduction of anti-recharacterization laws in U.S. states. These laws enhanced firms’ ability to borrow by...Read more
Bank-Fintech Partnerships, Outsourcing Arrangements and the Case for a Mentorship Regime
Fintech firms, once seen as “disruptors” of the traditional banking world, are now increasingly seen as attractive partners for established financial institutions. Such partnership agreements come in different forms and contexts, but most share...Read more
News
Event Report: Ownership with Diverse Shareholders
Event Report: Ownership with Diverse Shareholders
ECGI and IESE Business School Center for Corporate Governance organised a conference on "...Read more
Event Report: Global Shareholder Stewardship Conference
Event Report: Global Shareholder Stewardship Conference
The worldwide expansion of institutional investors’ share of public equity has given a new impetus to the discussion of the corporate governance...Read more
ECGI Announces Prizes for Papers on ‘Nationalism’ and ‘Activism’
ECGI Announces Prizes for Papers on ‘Nationalism’ and ‘Activism’
The European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) is delighted to announce the winners of the best papers in the Working Paper Finance and Law...Read more
Event Report: Global Webinar on the COVID-19 Crisis and its Aftermath
Event Report: Global Webinar on the COVID-19 Crisis and its Aftermath
A summary report from the 24-hour Global Webinar organised by ECGI and the Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (...Read more
Codes
Code of good governance of listed companies
Code of good governance of listed companies
Spain
Codigo de Gobierno Societario (2019)
Codigo de Gobierno Societario (2019)
Argentina
Principles for Responsible Institutional Investors - Japan’s Stewardship Code
Principles for Responsible Institutional Investors - Japan’s Stewardship Code
Japan
German Corporate Governance Code 2019
German Corporate Governance Code 2019
Germany
Videos
Professor A. Lucian Bebchuk of the Harvard Law School and Professor Colin Mayer, CBE of Saïd Business School, Oxford debate one of the great controversies in business today – should it be governed and run for shareholder or stakeholder interests?
02 July 2020
The COVID-19 Crisis and Its Aftermath: Corporate Governance Implications and Policy Challenges. 24 hour webinar. Columbia University session hosted by Jeffrey Gordon (Columbia Law School).
30 April 2020
The COVID-19 Crisis and Its Aftermath: Corporate Governance Implications and Policy Challenges. 24 hour webinar. University of Oxford and Imperial College London session hosted by Colin Mayer (Said Business School, University of Oxford).
30 April 2020
The COVID-19 Crisis and Its Aftermath: Corporate Governance Implications and Policy Challenges. 24 hour webinar. Goethe University Frankfurt session hosted by Tobias Tröger (Liebnitz Institute SAFE, Goethe University Frankfurt).
30 April 2020
Research Members
The research work that emanates from ECGI is undertaken by leading scholars around the globe. This important network of academics is at the very core of what ECGI does, drawing on the finest minds in academia from all over the world to tackle some of the most important issues that confront business and governments today.
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Associate Professor of Finance
Stockholm School of Economics
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Research Member
Norma Z. Paige Professor of Law
New York University School of Law
Patron Members
The ECGI Patron Members provide regular and long-term support for Academic Research through their contributions to the European Corporate Governance Research Foundation (ECGRF). Their philanthropic donations stimulate the production of research studies and other academic work of excellence in corporate governance.
Institutional Members
The Institutional Members of ECGI provide a vital connection between the academic world and the policy and practitioner aspects of corporate governance. These members recognise the importance of evidence-based research in developing their corporate governance policies and seek to continuously improve the standards of corporate governance.
