This academic conference will focus on the theme of 'Differential Voting Shares'. Attendance is by invitation only.
ICGN and ECGI organised a one-day academic conference on 11 February 2019 in Amsterdam...
March 2019 will mark 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.
Lisa Rabbe is the founder and CEO of Stratosphere Advisors LLC, a political risk and public policy consultancy, and of Stratosphere Analytics LLC, a RegTech startup. She is an expert on financial and anti-trust regulation, and currently focuses on public policy and regulatory issues at the juncture of tech and financial services, notably data privacy, big data and virtual competition, cloud based financial services, FinTech and RegTech.
Firms with strong corporate governance are often likened to democracies. Through their proposals and votes, shareholders can determine the broad direction of a company. However, shareholder participation also exacerbates the risk that boards feel compelled to comply with a meaningless cacophony...
Many investors and governance experts believe that “skin in the game” of managers, i.e. substantial stock and option ownership of top management, is good for firm value. Managers who own a lot of stock have aligned incentives with shareholders and will work hard to maximize shareholder value....
Although the phrase, ‘corporate culture’, has been described by commentators as ‘inherently slippery’, it has become part of the global regulatory zeitgeist. It is now a central feature of a range international discussions about corporate governance and risk management. Numerous international...
In this article, we examine the potential for management-worker alliances when employees have substantial voting rights from their equity ownership, and how such alliances affect the agency relationship between managers and shareholders in the context of corporate acquisition decisions. Employee...
Auditing failures and scandals have become commonplace. In response, reformers (including the Kingman Review in the U.K and a recent report of the U.K.’s Competition and Market Authority) have proposed a variety of remedies, including...Read more
This paper provides evidence that remote voting became the current technique for voting. Based on data for French companies, I found that gradually more and more shareholders, and not only institutional shareholders, vote in absentia. While a...Read more
Data standardization offers significant benefits for industry and regulators alike, suggesting that it should be easy. In practice, however, the process has been difficult and slow moving. Moving from an abstract incentive-based analysis to one...Read more
We develop a theory of blockchain governance. In our model, the proof-of-work system, which is the most common set of rules for validating transactions in blockchains, creates an industrial ecosystem with specialized suppliers of goods and...Read more
International academics from the world’s leading universities arrived at Harvard this week to take part in the 2018 Global Corporate Governance...Read more
13 August 2018 – Brussels. The European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) is delighted to welcome fifteen new institutional members to its...Read more
The 2018 ECGI Annual Member meeting featured a Focus Panel on "...Read more
The 4th Annual Conference of the Ibero- American Institute for Law and Finance will be held in Sao Paulo (Brazil), on December 13-14, 2018, under...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.
