Annual Members Meeting 2010

The ECGI Annual Members Meeting 2010 took place in Luxembourg on 6-7 May.  On Friday 7 May, the General Assembly and Annual Lecture was held at the University of Luxembourg. ECGI Fellow, Professor Patrick Bolton, Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business, Columbia Business School, gave the Annual Lecture on the theme of Rewarding Illusory Alpha: Governance and the Crisis. The dinner took place the night before at the offices of ArcelorMittal in Luxembourg.

2010 Working Paper Prize-giving:

The Standard Life Investments Finance Prize was won by Harald Hau from INSEAD and Marcel Thum from TU Dresden, Ifo Dresden and CESifo with:

Subprime Crisis and Board (In-)Competence: Private vs. Public Banks in Germany (ECGI Finance Working Paper No. 247/2009)

The Allen & Overy Law Prize was won by John Armour from the University of Oxford, Simon Deakin and Priya Lele from the University of Cambridge, and Mathias Siems from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and University of Cambridge with:

How Do Legal Rules Evolve? Evidence from a Cross-Country Comparison of Shareholder, Creditor and Worker Protection (ECGI Law Working Paper No. 129/2009)