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ABOUT THE EVENT

The John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance and the Department of Finance at the Lerner College of Business & Economics at the University of Delaware hosted an in-person Academic Symposium in collaboration with the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) on Friday, 17 March 2023. The University of Delaware is located in Newark, Delaware, 40 minutes from the Philadelphia International Airport.

Academics and Practitioners were invited to submit papers by 18 November 2022 for consideration. All submissions related to corporate governance were welcomed. Two of the papers selected will each receive the 2023 John L. Weinberg/IRRCi Research Paper Award and a $10,000 prize. Details of past year's programme and award winners are available here.

The winning papers“Female Equity Analysts and Corporate Environmental and Social Performance” (Kai Li (University of British Columbia), Feng Mai (Stevens Institute of Technology), Gabriel Wong (Cardiff University), Chelsea Yang (University of British Columbia), and Tengfei Zhang (Rutgers University)) and "Conflicting Fiduciary Duties and Fire Sales of VC-backed Start-ups” Bo Bian (University of British Columbia), Yingxiang Li (University of British Columbia), and Casimiro A. Nigro (Goethe University) were presented and discussed together with the semi-finalist’s papers for the prize.

Conference Location: Clayton Conference Center (U. of Delaware), 100 David Hallowell Dr., Newark, DE 19716

General inquiries regarding the competition or the Symposium should be directed to Louisa Cresson at Weinberg-corp-gov@udel.edu.

Programme

Friday, 17 March 2023 | 08:00 EDT (13:00 CET)

Breakfast

Fast and Furious Session | Chaired by

Speaker(s)

Lunch Break

Concluding Remarks

Speaker(s)

Speakers

Pat Akey

Associate Professor of Finance
University of Toronto
Research Member

Lucian Bebchuk

James Barr Ames Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance
Harvard Law School
Fellow, Research Member

Doron Levit

Marion B. Ingersoll Professor of Finance
University of Washington
Research Member

Andrey Malenko

Professor of Finance
Boston College, Carroll School of Management
Research Member

Laura Field

Donald J. Puglisi Professor of Finance
University of Delaware
Research Member

Fei Xie

Chaplin Tyler Professor of Finance & Iannaccone Faculty Fellow
University of Delaware, Lerner College of Business and Economics
Research Member

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Donald J. Puglisi Professor of Finance
University of Delaware
Chaplin Tyler Professor of Finance & Iannaccone Faculty Fellow
University of Delaware, Lerner College of Business and Economics

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