The inaugural seminar in the ECGI Spotlight Series will take place on 13 July 2020. The series will be introduced by the Chair of ECGI, Professor Lucrezia Reichlin and the Executive Director, Professor Marco Becht...
This event is co-sponsored by Stockholm School of Economics, the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and the European Corporate Governance Research Foundation (ECGRF). It brings together senior academics and thought-leaders in business to discuss a range of important topics.
The Swedish House of Finance (SHoF) and the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) are pleased to invite interested academics and others to attend a conference on Sustainable Finance on October 16-17, 2020.
Vassilis Christakis has been working at the Black Sea Trade & Development Bank since 2000, serving in a variety of procurement and governance-related posts. He has been the Head of the Bank's Internal Purchasing unit and, subsequently, the Bank's Head of Procurement, in charge of setting up major service contracts, managing equipment purchases, and overseeing the selection and employment of consultants. Mr.
The public benefit corporation (“PBC”) is one of the hottest developments in corporate law. The sine qua non of this new form is that directors are required, under their fiduciary obligations, to consider a social purpose beyond the traditional profit-seeking duty. The PBC is thus seen as...
Shareholder inspection rights allow a shareholder to access relevant documents and records of their company, so as to address the problem of information asymmetry inherent in the corporate form, and facilitate the monitoring of the operation of the company and if necessary, the bringing of...
Recent corporate governance research reports several major developments. First, researchers have made important progress in adapting statistical methodologies and experimental designs to facilitate causal inference about how governance mechanisms affect firm performance and valuation. The...
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...
In spite of the highly concentrated ownership of listed companies, Italy is one of the countries in which institutional investors are on the rise and are playing an increasingly active role in the governance of their investee companies. Against...Read more
We model an investor’s choice between filing Schedules 13D and 13G and use the model to estimate expected returns to activist and passive investing. Using the model, we decompose average Schedule 13D filing announcement returns into treatment (75...Read more
Are firms’ financial disclosure decisions affected by executive compensation at other firms? We find that a CEO’s pay gap relative to the highest CEO pay among industry peers, defined as industry tournament incentives, can lead to distortions in...Read more
This essay argues that, to address the Covid-19 crisis, in addition to creating a special temporary insolvency regime, relaxing provisions for companies in the vicinity of insolvency, and enabling companies to hold virtual meetings, policymakers...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
A summary report from the 24-hour Global Webinar organised by ECGI and the Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (...Read more
ECGI is delighted to formally announce the appointment of Professor Yupana Wiwattanakantang to the Board of Directors...Read more
Professor A. Lucian Bebchuk of the Harvard Law School and Professor Colin Mayer, CBE of Saïd Business School, Oxford debate one of the great controversies in business today – should it be governed and run for shareholder or stakeholder interests?
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).
