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With plans announced to create a single market for capital within the European Union by 2019, this conference brought together senior scholars and policymakers with the objective of examining the important questions and identifying the cutting edge insights from existing scholarship in the fields of law, economics, and finance. They have also examined potentially fruitful avenues for future research, which is of the greatest relevance to European policymakers as they move forward with the design and implementation of the Capital Markets Union.

The conference, which took place on 13-14 January 2017, was organised by the European Corporate Governance Institute, University of Oxford and Columbia University. The conference report is accessible following this link.

Programme

Friday 13 January
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Registration and Coffee

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Opening Address - Ugo Bassi

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Session One: Public Equity Market Modernization

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Lunch

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Session Two: Promoting Entrepreneurial Finance

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Coffee

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Session Three: Fintech – Transcending Borders

Saturday 14 January
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Coffee

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Session Four: Reforming Debt Markets

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Coffee

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Session Five: The CMU In The Context Of Other Post-Crisis Reforms

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Sandwich Lunch

Speakers

Merritt Fox

Arthur Levitt Professor of Law
Columbia Law School
Research Member

Luzi Hail

Professor of Accounting
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Research Member

Thomas Hellmann

Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Research Member

Jan Pieter Krahnen

Professor of Finance
Center for Financial Studies (CFS), Leibniz Institute SAFE, Goethe University Frankfurt
Research Member

Nicolas Véron

Founding partner
ECIF (Etudes et Conseil pour l?Information Financière)
Practitioner Member

Judith Hardt

Secretary General
Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE)

Lisa Rabbe

Chief Government and Public Affairs Officer
Moody's
Practitioner Member

Tobias Tröger

Professor of Private Law, Commercial and Business Law
Leibniz Institute SAFE, Goethe University Frankfurt, House of Finance
Research Member

Paolo Volpin

Stratakis Chair in Corporate Governance and Accountability | Academic Director of the Gupta Governance Institute | Professor of Finance
LeBow College of Business, Drexel University
Research Member

Douglas Cumming

DeSantis Distinguished Professor
Florida Atlantic University
Research Member

John Armour

Professor of Law and Finance
University of Oxford, Faculty of Law
Fellow, Research Member

Jeffrey Gordon

Richard Paul Richman Professor of Law and Co-Director, Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership
Columbia Law School
Fellow, Research Member

Luca Enriques

Professor of Corporate Law
University of Oxford
Fellow, Research Member

Marco Becht

Professor of Finance and the Goldschmidt Professor of Corporate Governance
Solvay Brussels School for Economics and Management, Université libre de Bruxelles
Fellow, Research Member

Contact

Elaine McPartlan
European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)
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