[Tokyo] Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS) conducted this 3-day international seminar which wrapped up past research activities and explored new issues to be challenged concerning this research project.
[NYC] The Institute for Corporate Governance & Finance at NYU will host a roundtable on the subject "For Whom is the Corporation Managed?" on Friday 6 December 2019
This academic conference will focus on the theme of Executive Compensation and Sustainability. Attendance is by invitation only.
Silvana Glibota-Vigo joined FirstGroup as Deputy Company Secretary in January 2017. She qualified as a lawyer in Argentina and Spain. She has an interest in international relations and is a fellow of ICSA: the governance institute. She’s been working in corporate governance since 2004 and for UK premium listed companies, including British Land, Royal Mail, Prudential and Man Group, since 2006.
The stockholder/stakeholder dilemma has occupied corporate leaders and corporate lawyers for over a century. Most recently, the Business Roundtable, in a complete turnaround of its prior position, stated that “the paramount duty of management and of boards of directors is to the...
The received wisdom is that stronger relationships reinforce over time and lead to better deals. Examining investor relationships in the venture capital (VC) industry we challenge this received wisdom by identifying circumstances where relationships weaken over time, and can even lead to lower...
What are the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) for corporate law? In a recent essay, we consider the trajectory of AI’s evolution, analyze the effects of its application on business practice, and investigate the impact of these developments for corporate law. Overall, we claim that...
Recent regulatory reforms in advanced economies have empowered shareholders by letting them vote on executive compensation, corporate transactions, changes to the corporate charter, and social and environmental proposals. This shift of power from boards to shareholders assumes that shareholder...
We analyze rights offerings and public offerings in a setting where better informed current shareholders strategically choose to subscribe. When all current shareholders have wealth to participate, rights offerings achieve the full information...Read more
This study examines the challenge of implicit communications - qualitative statements, tone, and non-verbal cues - to the effectiveness of enforcing corporate disclosure regulations. We use Regulation FD setting, given that SEC adopted the...Read more
We study retail shareholder voting using a detailed and nearly universal sample of anonymized retail shareholder voting records over the period 2015-2017. Contrary to public perception, we find that retail shareholders are an influential voting...Read more
Auditors play a major role in corporate governance and capital markets. Ex ante, auditors facilitate firms’ access to finance by fostering trust among public investors. Ex post, auditors can prevent misbehavior and prevent financial fraud by...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.
