Corporations, and other forms of business associations, have been the subject of intense study including their history, governance, and obligations to stakeholders and the public at large...
The Technology, Governance and Regulation Conference in Jerusalem is hosted by the Jerusalem School of Business Administration at the Hebrew University...
The 2019 ECGI Annual Members' Meeting will take place at IESE Business School, Barcelona on 24 October 2019.
This Conference will offer a context to reflect upon and better understand how the different nature of shareholders have an impact on the way companies are governed and managed...
Daniela is a graduate from the National Aprilov High School in the town of Gabrovo. In 1998 she graduated with a Masters degree from the Law Faculty of Sofia University and for more than 15 years now she has been working in the field of regulation of the capital market in Bulgaria, raising the disclosure standards of exchange represented companies, applying the principles of good corporate governance and corporate social responsibility.
Perceptions that those who are duped into buying into fraudulent schemes are the elderly and most vulnerable have long been touted in the news, movies like the Wolf of Wall Street, and even regulators. Yet, do we actually know who invests in pump-and-dump schemes? It is a critical question since...
CEOs of U.S. public companies have significant influence over policy and political decisions. They are commonly regarded as authoritative experts on policy matters, they are routinely appointed to advisory committees by Republican and Democratic presidents, and they publicly express their policy...
Can an algorithm assist firms in their hiring decisions of corporate directors? This paper proposes a method of selecting boards of directors that relies on machine learning. We develop algorithms with the goal of selecting directors that would be preferred by the shareholders of a particular...
Shocks that hit part of the financial system, such as the subprime mortgage market in 2007, can propagate and amplify through the complex network of interconnections among financial and non-financial institutions to take on systemic proportions. The financial crisis of 2007-2009 showed that the...
Relative performance evaluation (RPE) in CEO compensation can be used as a commitment device to pay CEOs for their revealed relative talent. We find evidence consistent with the talent-retention hypothesis, using two different approaches. First,...Read more
Companies with a dual-class structure have increasingly been involved in high-profile battles over the reallocation of control rights. Google, for instance, sought to entrench its founders’ control over the corporation by recapitalizing from a...Read more
Using data on the universe of US-based mutual funds, we find that two out of five fund families hold corporate bonds of firms in which they also own an equity stake. We show that the greater the fraction of debt a fund family holds in a given...Read more
Low-quality securities class action lawsuits disproportionally target firms with valuable innovation output and impose a substantial implicit "tax" on these firms. We establish this fact using data on class action lawsuits against U.S....Read more
ECGI is delighted to announce the appointment of 17 new Research Members to add to its distinguished ranks. The new Research Members, who are...Read more
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
On 11 February 2019 the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) teamed up with the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) to...Read more
International academics from the world’s leading universities arrived in Frankfurt at the beginning of June to take part in the...Read more
Watch the welcome video for the 2018 Global Corporate Governance Colloquium at Harvard Law School.
Panel discussion on "CSR and Impact Investing: Framing the Questions" at GCGC 2018 in Harvard.
