Corporate Governance Standards and Financial Stability
- 09 September 2008
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- Charlemagne Building, Brussels
The twin themes of the Conference were 'Corporate Governance Standards' and 'Financial Stability'. It took place at the Charlemagne Building, Brussels on Tuesday, 9 September 2008.Â
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The organisers are grateful for support for the 2008 Conference from
The European Commission
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The ECGI is grateful for the sponsorship of the 2008 Conference by:
Telecom ItaliaÂ
Information
Tuesday 9 September 2008
Registration and coffee
Welcome
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Session 1 – Keynote speech
Keynote speaker
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Coffee
Session 2 – Finance
Moderator
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Panel
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Presentations
Welcome
Welcome
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Keynote speaker
Keynote speaker
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Conference Documents
Moderator
Moderator
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Conference Documents
The Ownership of Japanese Corporations in the 20th Century
Twentieth century Japan provides a remarkable laboratory for examining how an externally imposed institutional and regulatory intervention affects...
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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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Evolution of Ownership and Control Around the World: The Changing Face of Capitalism
This chapter documents the evolution of ownership and control of firms around the world over a hundred year period from the beginning of the 20th century...
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Ownership, Agency and Trusteeship
This article argues that the two dominant concepts of theory of the firm and the bases of modern management education, business practice, and public...
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Principles of Financial Regulation
Inadequate regulation of the financial system is widely thought to have contributed to the financial crisis. The purpose of the book is to articulate a...
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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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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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Panel
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Conference Documents
Institutional Debt Holder Governance
Using data on the universe of US-based mutual funds, we find that two out of five fund families hold corporate bonds of firms in which they also own an equity...
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The Corporate Governance of Defined Benefit Pension Plans: Evidence from the United Kingdom
This paper studies the governance of defined-benefit pension plans in the United Kingdom. We construct a governance measure, equal to the proportion of...
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Corporate Governance Externalities
When firms compete in the managerial labor market, the choice of corporate governance by a firm affects, and is affected by, the choice of governance by...
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Seeking Alpha: Excess Risk Taking and Competition for Managerial Talent
We present a model where firms compete for scarce managerial talent ("alpha") and managers are risk-averse. When managers cannot move across firms...
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