2024 Corporate Governance Symposium
ABOUT THE EVENT
In collaboration with the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance and the Department of Finance at the Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware hosted its 2024 annual corporate governance symposium. The winners of the 2024 John L. Weinberg/IRRCi $10,000 Research Paper Award competition were:
- Do Board Connections Between Product Market Peers Impede Competition?
Authors: Radhakrishnan Gopalan (Washington University in St. Louis, deceased), Renping Li (Washington University in St. Louis), Alminas Zaldoka (National University of Singapore)
Read the Paper - The Social Cost of Liquidity Disclosure: Evidence from Hospitals
Authors: Thomas Bourveau (Columbia University), Xavier Giroud (Columbia University, Yifan Ji (University of South Carolina), Xuelin Li (Columbia University)
Read the Paper - Specialist Directors
Authors: Yaron Nili (University of Wisconsin Law School) and Roy Shapira (Reichman University)
Read the Paper
The papers included in the Symposium collectively addressed new developments and critical issues within the area of corporate governance.
The Symposium also included the presentation by the one of the authors of the paper selected as the winner of ACC/Weinberg Center Carl Liggio Memorial Award.
Conference Location: Clayton Conference Center (U. of Delaware), 100 David Hallowell Dr., Newark, DE 19716
General inquiries regarding the competition or the Symposium should be directed to Louisa Cresson at Weinberg-corp-gov@udel.edu.
Please note that the selection of winners/finalists, if any, is at the sole discretion of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance. The Weinberg Center fully anticipates awarding up to three $10,000 prizes but reserves the right to select no papers as winners in the event papers submitted do not meet the above guidelines and/or the Center does not believe any paper is worthy of the award.
Programme
Registration & Breakfast
Welcomes & Introductions
Session 1 | ESG Issues
Do Consumers Care About ESG? Evidence from Barcode-Level Sales Data
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Polarization, Purpose and Profit
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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Coffee break
Session 2 | Directors
Do board connections between product market peers impede competition?
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Voting Rationales
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Lunch Break and Presentation of winner of ACC/Weinberg Carl Liggio Memorial Award
Specialist Directors
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Coffee break
Session 3 | Generative AI & Finance
ChatGPT and Corporate Policies
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Coffee break
Session 4 | Regulations and Disclosure
The Social Cost of Liquidity Disclosure: Evidence from Hospitals
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Conference ends
Post Conference Dinner
Speakers
Pedro Matos
Daniel Ferreira
Wei Jiang
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