Corporate Governance and Banking Union in a transatlantic perspective
- 17 December 2012
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- National Bank of Belgium, Brussels
The theme of the ninth conference in the series which took place at the National Bank of Belgium in Brussels on Monday, 17th December 2012 was Corporate Governance and Banking Union in a transatlantic perspective.
The organisers are most grateful for the support of the National Bank of Belgium and for the sponsorship of the 2012 conference by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
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Monday, 17th December 2012
Registration
Welcome & Introduction to the Conference
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Session 1 - Corporate Governance and Financial Institutions
Discussion panel on transatlantic issues- Chaired by Jörgen Holmquist
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Panel
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Coffee
Session 2 - Post-crisis reform
Keynote speaker
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Question & Answers- moderated by Jeffrey Gordon
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Lunch
Session 3 - The Structure of the Banking Union
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Moderator
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Coffee
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Session 4 - Implementing the Banking Union
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Discussion panel chaired by Mario Nava
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Session 5 - The Transatlantic perspective
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Session 6 - Summing up, Assessment and the Way Ahead
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Presentations
Welcome & Introduction to the Conference
Welcome & Introduction to the Conference
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Agency Capitalism: Further Implications of Equity Intermediation
This chapter continues our examination of the corporate law and governance implications of the fundamental shift in ownership structure of U.S. public...
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The Origins of a Capital Market Union in the United States
EU policy-makers have focused on the creation of a “Capital Market Union” to advance the economic vitality of the EU in the aftermath of the Global...
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The Empty Call for Benefit-Cost Analysis in Financial Regulation
?Benefit-cost analysis? as applied to financial regulation is a serious category mistake that has the potential to stymie regulation aimed at the...
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Discussion panel on transatlantic issues- Chaired by Jörgen Holmquist
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Conference Documents
The Origins of a Capital Market Union in the United States
EU policy-makers have focused on the creation of a “Capital Market Union” to advance the economic vitality of the EU in the aftermath of the Global...
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China as a "National Strategic Buyer": Towards a Multilateral Regime for Cross-Border M&A
Unlike the case of cross-border trade, there is no explicit international governance regime for cross-border M&A; rather, there is a shared...
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Convergence and Persistence in Corporate Law and Governance
This paper, which will be the basis for a chapter in the forthcoming OXFORD HANDBOOK OF CORPORATE LAW AND GOVERNANCE (Jeffrey Gordon and Georg Ringe,...
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Systematic Stewardship
This paper frames a normative theory of stewardship engagement by large institutional investors and asset managers in terms of their theory of...
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Question & Answers- moderated by Jeffrey Gordon
Question & Answers- moderated by Jeffrey Gordon
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Bank Governance
According to a common narrative, in addition to inadequate capital and liquidity, the failure of banks in the financial crisis also reflected their poor...
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China as a "National Strategic Buyer": Towards a Multilateral Regime for Cross-Border M&A
Unlike the case of cross-border trade, there is no explicit international governance regime for cross-border M&A; rather, there is a shared...
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Bank Resolution in Europe: the Unfinished Agenda of Structural Reform
This chapter argues that the work of the European Banking Union remains incomplete in one important respect, the structural re-organization of large...
Read moreSession 3 - The Structure of the Banking Union
Session 3 - The Structure of the Banking Union
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Banking Union: Aspects of the Single Supervisory Mechanism and the Single Resolution Mechanism Compared
The Banking Union is based on different components, partly on directives applicable throughout the EU, partly on two regulations applicable only in the...
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The Single Supervisory Mechanism or ?SSM?, Part One of the Banking Union
The Regulation on the Single Supervisory Mechanism mandates the European Central Bank to exercise prudential supervision on the most significant...
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Standard Setting for Accountants and the Role of the Public Interest Oversight Board
Standard setting for accountants and auditors takes places in international bodies, organised within the framework of the International Federation...
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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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Do Investors Care about Carbon Risk?
We study whether carbon emissions affect the cross-section of U.S. stock returns. We find that stocks of firms with higher total CO2 emissions (and...
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Pay for Short-Term Performance: Executive Compensation in Speculative Markets
We argue that the root cause behind the recent corporate scandals associated with CEO pay is the technology bubble of the latter half of the 1990s. Far from...
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Investor Ideology
We estimate institutional investor preferences from proxy voting records. The W-NOMINATE method maps investors onto a left-right dimension based on...
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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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L-Shares: Rewarding Long-Term Investors
We argue that a fundamental reason for the short term perspective of corporate executives is the short-term orientation of shareholders and financial...
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Session 6 - Summing up, Assessment and the Way Ahead
Session 6 - Summing up, Assessment and the Way Ahead
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Panel Discussions
Moderator
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Discussion panel chaired by Mario Nava
Discussion panel chaired by Mario Nava
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