ICGN and ECGI organised a one-day academic conference on 11 February 2019 in Amsterdam...
March 2019 marked the twentieth anniversary of the Centros case (C-212/97), without doubt the most influential judgment rendered by the (then) Court of Justice in the field of European company law...
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.
Daniela Weber-Rey is a non-executive board member at HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt AG (Aufsichtsrat), Düsseldorf, and at Groupe FNAC DARTY (Conseil d’Administration), Ivry-sur-Seine/Paris, as well as a member of the Government Commission for the German Corporate Governance Code, a board member of the European Corporate Governance Institute, Brussels, and a corporate advisor to the British Academy, London.
Financial reports are important tools used by investors to evaluate company performance and future prospects. Auditors safeguard the integrity of the financial reports by providing reasonable assurance that financial statements are fairly presented in accordance with GAAP. In the U.S....
Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are among the most important events in a company’s lifecycle and have a significant impact on the firm’s operations and activities. Despite the vast amounts of money and resources spent on takeovers and the hundreds of academic studies investigating firm...
Cross-border venture capital investments play an important role in the scaling up of high-growth companies. However, when these companies obtain foreign funding, typically from US investors, there is a concern that they transfer the majority of economic activity to the investor country. On the...
Accounting scandals have sprung up everywhere over the last two years: the U.S., Europe, South Africa -- and, most of all, the U.K. The political reaction has also been the most intense in the U.K., where two governmental reports were released at the end of 2018. The first by Sir John Kingman...
Stock markets price listed firms, while defaulted firms delist. Due to the lower profits of defaulted firms, the average stock price exceeds firm unconditional expected value. Such price-value wedge originates from a survivorship bias. The wedge...Read more
This paper studies mutual fund voting in proxy contests using a comprehensive sample of voting records over the period 2008 - 2015, taking into account selective targeting by activists. We find that firm, fund, and event characteristics generate...Read more
Index funds own an increasingly large proportion of American public companies, currently more than one fifth and steadily growing. The stewardship decisions of index fund managers—how they monitor, vote, and engage with their portfolio 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
Brussels – 15 October 2018. Nobel Laureates, Oliver Hart (Harvard University)...Read more
ECGI is delighted to announce the appointment of Prof. Amir Licht as Editor of the...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.
