This conference at King’s College London will bring together standard setters to share experiences and good practices, enhance dialogue, guide scholarship, and shape future stewardship policy through evidence-based recommendations.
The conference remembers our late colleague Professor Brigitte Haar who passed away much too early this spring. Brigitte was Professor of Private German, European, and International Business Law at the Goethe University Frankfurt and an ECGI Research Member.
The 2019 ECGI Annual Members' Meeting will take place at IESE Business School, Barcelona on 24 October 2019.
This event at Downing College, University of Cambridge will consider the broader question of how best to incorporate ESG concerns into investment portfolios.
After 26 years in the insurance industry, and with extensive diverse international executive experience, Mrs. Gómez-Llorente has recently started a new phase of her career as Independent Non Executive Director.
In this new sphere, strong and effective corporate governance is a fundamental pillar. She is fluent in Spanish, English and French.
To the best of our knowledge this is the first study to investigate whether the presence of female directors in the boardrooms of US corporations increases the consumption of renewable energy as a share of total energy consumption. Renewable energy includes energy from wind, solar, biomass,...
The European Capital Markets Union is an ambitious project with a well-established economic rationale. Less well explored is the political side of the CMU agenda.
This paper argues that the main purpose behind the CMU project is a political move. I show that the initial plan was first and...
Earnings management consists of a firm’s insiders cooking the books, that is, manipulating reported earnings via discretionary accruals and/or taking real actions to affect the financial performance of the firm. Discretionary accruals derive from different interpretations of accounting rules....
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Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) have become important to many corporations and the majority of large firms today voluntarily provide reports on their CSR initiatives, risks, and activities. However, because there are no commonly agreed...
Does doing more deals together always strengthen investor relationships? Based on the relationships of the top 50 US venture capital firms, this paper focuses on the strengths of relationships and their dynamic evolution. Empirical estimates...Read more
We use equity crowdfunding data to ask how fundraising amounts can be explained by what entrepreneurs ask for, versus what investors want to invest. The analysis exploits unique features of crowdfunding where entrepreneurs not only set investment...Read more
Understanding an entrepreneurial finance ecosystem requires an appreciation of how different investors interact with each other. Angels and venture capitalists constitute two very important investors in start-ups. We develop and empirically test...Read more
What are the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) for corporate law? In this essay, we consider the trajectory of AI’s evolution, analyze the effects of its application on business practice, and investigate the impact of these...Read more
This article is the first in a four-part summary of the conference which seeks to highlight some of the interesting new work and research...Read more
This article is the second in a four-part summary of the conference which seeks to highlight some of the interesting new work and research...Read more
This article is the third in a four-part summary of the conference which seeks to highlight some of the interesting new work and research...Read more
This article is the fourth in a four-part summary of the conference which seeks to highlight some of the interesting new work and research...Read more
Prof. Dan W. Puchniak presents his paper on "Related Party Transactions in Commonwealth Asia: Complicating the Comparative Paradigm" at the 2019 Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC) at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Discussion of the paper is then presented by Prof. Michael Klausner.
Prof. Vicente Cuñat presents his paper on "Active Owners and Firm Policies" at the 2019 Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC) at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Discussion of the paper is then presented by Prof. Oğuzhan Karakaş.
Prof. Jennifer Hill presents her paper on "Corporate Culture and Liability" at the 2019 Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC) at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Discussion of the paper is then presented by Prof. Edward Rock
Prof. Enrichetta Ravina presents her paper on "Investor Ideology" at the 2019 Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC) at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Discussion of the paper is then presented by Prof. Holger Spamann.
