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.Â
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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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Conference Documents
Keynote speaker
Keynote speaker
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Conference Documents
Moderator
Moderator
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Conference Documents
Briefings
Briefings
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Conference Documents
Implementation of the SRD II Provisions on Related Party Transactions
In 2017 the European Union adopted amendments to the Shareholder Rights Directive enacted a decade earlier. Among the changes was a new Article 9c...
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Single Supervision and the Governance of Banking Markets
In this paper, I try to assess the likely impact of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) on Eurozone banking markets. I start by analysing the...
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Independent directors and controlling shareholders around the world
In this paper, we examine independent directors as a legal transplant from dispersed ownership systems to concentrated ownership ones. We focus on...
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Understanding the Role of Corporate Governance in Financial Institutions: A Research Agenda
After the 2008 financial crisis, a substantial part of the blame for the numerous bank failures that occurred as a result of the crisis has been put on...
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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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Panel
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Directors? Duties and Shareholders? Rights in the European Union: Mandatory and/or Default Rules?
Deciding between mandatory and/or default rules (or as they are also called: eligible law,enabling rules, optional rules, legal menus, rules allowing...
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Loans to Chapter 11 Firms: Contract Design and Pricing
With a hand-collected set of 545 debtor-in-possession (DIP) loan facilities, 2002-2019, we show that these short-term loans are highly...
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Corporate Governance of Banks and Financial Institutions: Economic Theory, Supervisory Practice, Evidence and Policy
Banks are special, and so is the corporate governance of banks and other financial institutions as compared with the general corporate governance of...
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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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Board gender-balancing, network information, and insider trading
Following Norway's forced board gender-balancing (12/2007), which more than doubled the network of female directors, the short-term market reaction...
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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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The Dialogue between the Chairman of the Board and Investors: The Practice in the UK, the Netherlands and Germany and the Future of the German Corporate Governance Code Under the New Chairman
The dialogue of the board and its chairman with investors is an established practice in many countries, such as the United Kingdom, the USA, the...
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Keynote Address
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Moderator
Moderator
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Briefings
Briefings
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Global Settlements: Promise and Peril
In 2010, Morrison v. National Australia Bank Ltd. destabilized the world of securities litigation by denying those who purchased their securities...
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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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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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Ratings Reform: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Both in Europe and in the United States, major steps have been taken to render credit rating agencies more accountable. But do these steps address the...
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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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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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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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Panel
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Conference Documents
Summing up
Summing up
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Conference Documents
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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Returns to Hedge Fund Activism: An International Study
This paper provides evidence on the incidence, characteristics, and performance of activist engagements across countries. We find that the incidence...
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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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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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Where Do Firms Incorporate? Deregulation and the Cost of Entry
We study how deregulation of corporate law affects the decision of entrepreneurs of where to incorporate. Recent rulings by the European Court of...
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Corporate Governance Through Voice and Exit
How do active managers engage with portfolio firms? And, what role does monitoring and engagement play in their trading decisions? We use proprietary...
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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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Returns to Shareholder Activism: Evidence from a Clinical Study of the Hermes U.K. Focus Fund
This article reports a unique analysis of private engagements by an activist fund. It is based on data made available to us by Hermes, the fund manager...
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