ICGN and ECGI organised a one-day academic conference on 11 February 2019 in Amsterdam...
This conference will focus on the role of ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) considerations in the management of public companies and the investment priorities of asset managers. Limited spaces are available for this event.
The fifth annual GCGC conference will take place at the House of Finance, Goethe University Frankfurt on 7 - 8 June 2019. The deadline for submissions is 14 September 2018. Attendance is by invitation only.
The Roundtable will focus on the reasons and implications of fewer companies going public. The steep decline in initial public offerings in the U.S. has raised concerns about reduced opportunities for general public to save for the future.
In the absence of agency conflict and market frictions, it is beneficial to allow greater freedom to firms in their choice of corporate financial policy. Unconstrained optimization is always better than constrained optimization. However, if management is standing ready to pursue its own self-...
This Essay entertains the idea that Delaware’s corporate law is set on a trajectory that would eventually lead to reforming its doctrine of entire fairness as we now know it by retiring its substantive fairness review prong and insisting on fully-informed consent as the only way for...
Takeovers are major corporate actions; they significantly impact the future of the acquiring company. A successful acquisition requires a plausible valuation of the deal -- but such valuations are arguably particularly challenging in the presence of intangible assets, an increasingly important...
CEO duality – the practice of combining the roles of the CEO and chairman of the board – has been the topic of one of the longest debates in corporate governance. While a majority of firms in the S&P 500 index combine the two roles, there is frequent pressure on firms from investors and...
An important question in banking is how strict supervision affects bank lending and in turn local business activity. Forcing banks to recognize losses could choke off lending and amplify local economic woes. But stricter supervision could also...Read more
Manipulative communications touting stocks are common in capital markets around the world. Although the price distortions created by so-called “pump-and-dump” schemes are well known, little is known about the investors in these frauds. By...Read more
This paper investigates what we can learn from the financial crisis about the link between accounting and financial stability. The picture that emerges ten years after the crisis is substantially different from the picture that dominated the...Read more
The public company has historically been a crucial element of the American economy. Various predictions have been made recently that the public company’s future is bleak. This essay maintains these gloomy conjectures are erroneous. Companies...Read more
13 August 2018 – Brussels. The European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) is delighted to welcome fifteen new institutional members to its...Read more
ECGI is delighted to announce the appointment of Prof. Amir Licht as Editor of the...Read more
The 23rd European Corporate Governance Conference took place in Bucharest, Romania on 2 April, 2019. The theme of the conference was "Corporate...Read more
For decades, the public company has played a dominant role in the American economy. Since the middle of the 20th century, the nature of the public...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.
