Annual Members Meeting 2008

The ECGI's sixth General Assembly took place on Friday 11 April 2008 at the IESE Business School, Barcelona. The Annual Lecture was given by Professor Luigi Zingales, Robert C. McCormack Professor Entrepreneurship & Finance, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. His presentation "Board Elections : Is Italy a Model for the Rest of Us?" and the panel discussion that followed were conduct under the Chatham House rule.

The Egon Zehnder International Prize was won by Daniel Ferreira, London School of Economics, CEPR and ECGI, Miguel Ferreira, ISCTE Business School and Clara Raposo, ISCTE Business School with:

Board Structure and Price Informativeness (ECGI Finance Working Paper No. 160/2007)

The Standard Life Investments Finance Prize was won by Rui Albuquerque, Boston University, CEPR and ECGI and Neng Wang Columbia Business School with:

Agency Conflicts, Investment, and Asset Pricing (ECGI Finance Working Paper No. 167/2007)

The De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek Law Prize was won by Sanjai Bhagat, University of Colorado at Boulder, Leeds School of Business, Brian Bolton, University of New Hampshire, Whittemore School of Business & Economics and Roberta Romano, Yale Law School, NBER with:

The Promise and Peril of Corporate Governance Indices (ECGI Law Working Paper No. 089/2007)