The board is commonly described as a monitor of management on behalf of dispersed shareholders, but fundamental aspects of exactly how and when it...Read more
The paper explores the determinants and effects of diversity in the boards of US listed companies. Directors may differ along a number of...Read more
The European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) held its Annual Working Paper Prize-giving ceremony in Lausanne on 28 April 2017. Two awards...Read more
The board of directors is a particularly powerful governance mechanism for monitoring firm performance in the U.S. However, director monitoring...Read more
The impact of appearance on the outcomes of political elections is attributed in the psychology literature to an instantaneous, unreflective and...Read more
Few areas in corporate governance are of more interest -or relevance - to company directors and their legal advisors, than the topic of directors...Read more
Practictioners, policy-makers and scholars are engaged in a lively debate on the role and impact of independent directors and minority-appointed...Read more
There is an extensive literature in finance, which documents that executive and non-executive directors have an informational advantage when they...Read more
Starting with the 1992 Cadbury Report, successive UK codes of best practice in corporate governance have emphasised the key role that non-...Read more
Directors’ and officers’ liability marks a center point of the corporate governance debate everywhere. Legal approaches seem to have converged...Read more
Prof. Robert M. Daines (Stanford Law School) presents his paper on "Can Staggered Boards Improve Value? Evidence from the Massachusetts Natural Experiment" at the 2016 GCGC Conference in Stockholm. Discussion of the paper is then presented by Prof. Renee Adams (UNSW Business School, University of New South Wales).
Prof. Steven Kaplan (University of Chicago Booth School of Business) presents his paper on "Are CEOs Different? Characteristics of Top Managers" at the 2016 GCGC Conference in Stockholm. Discussion of the paper is then presented by Prof. Dan Puchniak (National University of Singapore). The full paper and slides from this presentation can be downloaded here: www.gcgc.global