Corporate Board Elections and Internal Controls
- 27 September 2005
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- New York, United States
The twin themes of the Conference were "Corporate Board Elections" and "Internal Controls". It took place at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on Tuesday, 27 September 2005.
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27 September 2005
Registration and Coffee
Welcome
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Introduction
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Session 1- Keynote speech
Keynote speaker
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Coffee
Session 2– Corporate Board Elections
Moderator
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Briefings
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Panel
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Lunch
Session 3- Keynote speech
Keynote Address
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Session 4– Internal Controls
Moderator
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Briefings
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Panel
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Session 5– Floor discussion and summing up
Summing up
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Post-conference reception
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Presentations
Welcome
Welcome
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Conference Documents
Introduction
Introduction
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Keynote speaker
Keynote speaker
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Moderator
Moderator
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Conference Documents
Briefings
Briefings
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Conference Documents
Executive Remuneration in the EU: The Context for Reform
This paper shows how clear divergences arise across the EU in how executive remuneration is structured. Sharp differences also occur in the adoption of...
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CRD IV and the Mandatory Structure of Bankers? Pay
In this paper, I analyse the rise of mandatory structure of bankers? pay in Europe as outcome of criticism of pre-crisis remuneration practices at...
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Executive Remuneration in the EU: Comparative Law and Practice
Executive pay practices are currently a "cause celebre" of corporate governance in the media, among regulators, in the marketplace, and in academia, in...
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Understanding Directors' Pay in Europe: A Comparative and Empirical Analysis
This paper analyses the regulatory framework which applies to the determination of directors’ remuneration in Europe and the extent to which...
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Corporate Purpose and Sustainability
An increasing number of firms make reference to the pursuit of environmental and social goals in the definition of their purpose. This raises...
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Internal Investigations, Whistleblowing and External Monitoring: Comparative Experiences, Economic Insights, Findings from Corporate Practice
Internal investigations, whistleblowing and external monitoring, are three information and enforcement channels and part of the corporate...
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Valuation effects of Norway's board gender-quota law revisited
We highlight the complexities in estimating the valuation effects of board gender quotas by critically revisiting studies of Norway’s pioneering...
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Corporate Takeovers and Economic Efficiency
I review recent takeover research which advances our understanding of ?who buys who? in the drive for productive efficiency. This research provides...
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Boards in Europe - Accountability and Convergence
Corporate boards play a central role in corporate governance and therefore are regulated in the corporate law and corporate governance codes of all...
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Merger-Driven Listing Dynamics
We measure the degree to which stock exchanges around the world attract and retain firms under public ownership by adjusting actual listing counts for...
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Keynote Address
Keynote Address
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Moderator
Moderator
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Briefings
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The Future of Disclosure: ESG, Common Ownership, and Systematic Risk
The U.S. securities markets have recently undergone (or are undergoing) three fundamental transitions: (1) institutionalization (with the result...
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Litigation Governance: Taking Accountability Seriously
Both Europe and the United States are rethinking their approach to aggregate litigation. In the United States, class actions have long been organized...
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Extraterritorial Financial Regulation: Why E.T. Can?t Come Home
Systemic risk poses a classic ?public goods? problem. All nations want systemic stability, but most would prefer that other nations pay for it, allowing...
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The Agency Costs of Activism: Information Leakage, Thwarted Majorities, and the Public Morality
Few doubt that hedge fund activism has radically changed corporate governance in the United States -- for better or for worse. Proponents see activists...
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Dispersed Ownership: The Theories, the Evidence, and the Enduring Tension Between 'Lumpers' and 'Splitters'
From a global perspective, the single most noticeable fact about corporate governance is the radical dichotomy between dispersed ownership and...
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Why Do Auditors Fail? What Might Work? What Won't?
Auditing failures and scandals have become commonplace. In response, reformers (including the Kingman Review in the U.K and a recent report of the...
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Mapping the Future of Insider Trading Law: Of Boundaries, Gaps, and Strategies
The current law on insider trading is arbitrary and unrationalized in its limited scope in a number of respects. For example, if a thief breaks into your...
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The Impact of Hedge Fund Activism: Evidence and Implications
Hedge fund activism has increased almost hyperbolically. Some view this optimistically as a means for bridging the separation of ownership and...
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Summing up
Summing up
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Hedge Fund Activism in Europe
The paper analyzes 362 European activist interventions by hedge funds, focus funds and other activist investors from 2000 to 2008. The sample includes...
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A common argument against divestment is that it jettisons voting power and that it has a small effect on stock prices. We argue that divestment is a form of...
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Should Shareholders Have a Say on Acquisitions?
Shareholders of U.S. corporations have lost billions of dollars in acquisitions they never approved. In the United Kingdom the listing...
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Corporate Governance and Control
Corporate governance is concerned with the resolution of collective action problems among dispersed investors and the reconciliation of conflicts of...
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Loyalty Shares with Tenure Voting - Does the Default Rule Matter? Evidence from the Loi Florange Experiment
The contractual theory of the firm predicts that companies adopt charters that maximise firm value, regardless of the default rule. We test this...
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Does Mandatory Shareholder Voting Prevent Bad Acquisitions?
Shareholder voting on corporate acquisitions is controversial. In most countries acquisition decisions are delegated to boards and shareholder...
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Reciprocity in Takeovers
The European Commission has proposed a Takeover Directive that aims to make the control of European corporations more contestable. The European...
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The Benefits of Access: Evidence from Private Meetings with Portfolio Firms
We analyze the monitoring efforts of a large active asset manager that involve high-level private meetings with portfolio firms that are unobservable...
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