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Corporate Governance Symposium
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Tuesday, 16 March 2021
09:45 – 15:00 EDT | 14:45 – 20:00 CET
Organisers
Laura Field (University of Delaware and ECGI)
Fei Xie (University of Delaware and ECGI)
ABOUT THIS EVENT
The John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance and the Department of Finance at the Lerner College of Business and Economics, at the University of Delaware, hosted its 2021 annual corporate governance symposium in collaboration with the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). The focus of the Symposium was “Critical Issues for Boards and Investors in 2021.”
The symposium featured the two winning papers of the 2021 John L. Weinberg/IRRCi Research Paper Award competition which seeks to highlight innovative research and includes an award of USD 10,000.
The Covid-19 pandemic has increased the focus on various environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues by investors and other stakeholders. The papers included in the symposium collectively address topics within the area of ESG that are of critical importance in 2021 for boards of directors and investors.
The winning papers, ‘The ESG-Innovation Disconnect: Evidence from Green Patenting’ (Cohen, Gurun, Nguyen) and ‘The Distribution of Voting Rights to Shareholders’ (Fos, Holderness) was presented and discussed with the semi-finalist’s papers for the prize.
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Programme
The ESG-Innovation Disconnect: Evidence from Green Patenting
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Responsible Institutional Investing Around the World
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The Real Effects of Environmental Activist Investing
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Coordinated Engagements
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Break
The Distribution of Voting Rights to Shareholders
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Trading and Shareholder Democracy
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Disloyal Managers and Shareholders’ Wealth
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Laura Starks
Lilian Ng
Wei Jiang
Michelle Lowry
Marco Becht
Fei Xie
Pedro Matos
Elroy Dimson
Vyacheslav Fos
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