The COVID-19 Crisis and Its Aftermath: Corporate Governance Implications and Policy Challenges
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The COVID-19 Crisis and Its Aftermath: Corporate Governance Implications and Policy Challenges
24-Hour Global Webinar hosted throughout: Australia, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, China, Israel, Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom, and USA
16 April 2020
It is already clear that the COVID-19 pandemic will have dire economic consequences, and collective thought is being applied to what policies can better ensure societies’ resilience and their quick and dynamic recovery once the crisis is over. Corporate governance scholars can help devise sound and effective policies for this purpose. This global webinar convened scholars, practitioners and policymakers with the aim of sharing evidence-based insights for the common good.
Topics included, but were not limited to:
· Corporate social responsibility in war-like times
· Corporate governance digitalization
· The role of institutional investors and stewardship
· Takeover defences and M&A trends
· Bond markets and bankruptcy
· Corporate purpose in times of crisis
· The governance implications of emergency laws and government bailouts
· Securities regulation (disclosure, short-selling bans, etc.)
· ESG and Impact investing
· Systemic risk and financial stability following exogenous shocks
A collection of related articles by ECGI research members is available here
The schedule for the event was as follows (16 April 2020):
Time (Melbourne) AEST |
Local time |
University |
09:00 – 11:00 |
| Monash University, Melbourne |
11:30 – 13:30 | 10:30 – 12:30 JST/KST | University of Tokyo Seoul National University |
14:00 – 16:00 | 12:00 – 14:00 GMT+8 /CST | National University of Singapore Peking University |
16:30 – 18:30 | 09:30 – 11:30 IDT | Tel Aviv University IDC Herzliya, Israel |
19:00 – 21:00 | 11:00 – 13:00 CEST | Goethe University Frankfurt |
21:30 – 23:30 | 13:30 – 15:30 CEST | Swedish House of Finance |
00:00 – 02:00 | 15:00 – 17:00 BST | University of Oxford Imperial College London |
02:15 – 04:15 | 12:15 – 14:15 EDT | Columbia University |
04:30 – 06:30 | 14:30 – 16:30 EDT | Harvard University Yale University |
07:00 – 09:00 | 14:00 – 16:00 PDT | Stanford University |
The sessions were recorded and will be published on the ECGI website after the event. Registration for attendance was open to all with an interest in corporate governance.
An initiative of ECGI and the Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC).
Queries to be directed to: Webinars@ecgi.org
