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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Keynote speaker
Keynote speaker
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Moderator
Moderator
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Conference Documents
Briefings
Briefings
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Conference Documents
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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Is There a Role for Benefit Corporations in the New Sustainable Governance Framework?
In this paper, we ask whether benefit corporations have a role to play in the emerging EU sustainable governance framework. In sec. 2, we briefly...
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Common Banking Supervision in the Eurozone: Strengths and Weaknesses
In this paper we analyse various instances of supervisory centralization either implemented or proposed in Europe in the aftermath of the financial...
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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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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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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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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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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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Bidder-Specific Synergies and the Evolution of Acquirer Returns
Largely constant average acquirer returns over the past four decades mask fundamental changes in the takeover market. Controlling for bidder...
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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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Keynote Address
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Moderator
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Briefings
Briefings
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Panel
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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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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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Does Paying Passive Managers to Engage Improve ESG Performance?
The paper studies a natural experiment in responsible investment conducted by the Japanese Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF). In 2018 GPIF...
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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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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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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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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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