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
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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The Governance of Corporate Purpose
This paper was written for a Festschrift in honour of Rolf Skog. Concepts of corporate purpose which have risen to the fore recently emphasize a point...
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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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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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Regulatory Sanctions and Reputational Damage in Financial Markets
We study the impact of the enforcement of financial regulation by the UK’s regulatory authorities on the market price of penalized firms. Existing...
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Ownership: Evolution and Regulation
This paper is the first study of long-run evolution of investor protection and corporate ownership in the U.K. over the 20th century. Formal investor...
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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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Conference Documents
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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Managers, Workers, and Corporate Control
If management has high private benefits and a small equity stake, managers and workers are natural allies against takeover threats. Two forces are at...
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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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Competition for Managers and Corporate Governance
Separation between CEO and Chairman of the Board is typically viewed as evidence of good corporate governance. Surprisingly, the literature has failed...
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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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