(24 Hour Global Webinar) It is already clear that the COVID-19 pandemic will have dire economic consequences, and collective thought is being applied to what policies can better ensure societies’ resilience and their quick and dynamic recovery once the crisis is over. Corporate governance scholars can help devise sound and effective policies for this purpose. This global webinar convened scholars, practitioners and policymakers with the aim of sharing evidence-based insights for the common good.
[Riga] One of the priorities mentioned in the Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan of the European Commission is “easing business transfers”, for example, through reducing cross-border inheritance tax obstacles, improving information and advice services, and other initiatives. Likewise, stock exchanges are attempting to ease obstacles for SMEs, that are predominantly family-owned, to raise capital through public markets. The conference will examine these tendencies.
Till Wansleben is a lawyer at transaction boutique BMH BRÄUTIGAM, Germany, advising on corporate law and M&A matters. Prior thereto he was an Associate with Hengeler Mueller and a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law. He completed his studies in law at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main with specialization in "Law and Finance".
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...
Corporate stewardship holds great promise for the improvement of shareholder engagement and the encouragement of more responsible and long-term oriented value creation. Many countries have now adopted a best practice code for the stewardship role of institutional investors and asset managers,...
Manager-shareholder agency conflicts of interest manifest themselves in several forms. They include manager shirking and the consumption of private benefits, which have been the subject of extensive study. However, a frequently overlooked variant of this problem is risk-related agency conflicts...
Banks are special, and so is the corporate governance of banks and other financial institutions as compared with the general corporate governance of non-banks. Empirical evidence, mostly gathered after the financial crisis, confirms this. Banks practicing good corporate governance in the...
The moral hazard incentives of the bank safety net predict that distressed banks take on more risk and higher leverage. Since many factors reduce these incentives, including charter value, regulation, and managerial incentives, the net economic...Read more
In response to the spread of COVID-19, the Federal Reserve has established fourteen ad hoc facilities to lend to financial firms, foreign central banks, nonfinancial businesses, and state and local governments. This Article reviews these...Read more
Compliance can and often does serve as a conduit through which regulators and enforcement authorities enlarge their authority beyond statutory bounds. The potential to do so is a function of the symbiotic relationship between compliance officers...Read more
After the Covid-19 crisis struck, equity prices abruptly plunged across the world. The clear prospect of an almost unprecedented decrease in supply and demand, coupled with extreme uncertainty about the longer-term prospects for the economy...Read more
ECGI held its Annual Members’ Meeting in Barcelona on 24 October 2019, bringing together international academics and practitioners in the field of...Read more
ECGI and IESE Business School Center for Corporate Governance organised a conference on "...Read more
The worldwide expansion of institutional investors’ share of public equity has given a new impetus to the discussion of the corporate governance...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
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).
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).
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).
The COVID-19 Crisis and Its Aftermath: Corporate Governance Implications and Policy Challenges. 24 hour webinar. Monash University session hosted by Jennifer Hill (Monash University).
