http://www.ecgi.org/rss/news.xml RSS feed of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:23GMT en-us http://www.ecgi.org/assets/logos/ECGI fonts only.gif http://www.ecgi.org/index.htm Following the publication by the European Commission of two Green Paper on Corporate Governance of Financial Institutions and on Corporate Governance of all European corporations, the ECGI organised an academic conference in order to to identify the corporate governance research agenda of relevance to issues raised in these Green Papers. In addition to ECGI Research and Board members, the conference was attended by representative of DG Internal Market and Services and other invited academics and researchers. http://www.ecgi.org/conferences/green_papers2011/index.php Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:45GMT EU Green Paper The eighth conference in the Transatlantic Corporate Governance Dialogue (TCGD) series will take place in Washington at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington D.C. on Thursday, 15th Dec 2011. The theme this year is Shareholder Engagement: What is 'Appropriate'?. Keynote speakers will be Mary L. Schapiro, Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Michel Barnier, Commissioner for Internal Market and Services at the European Commission. http://www.ecgi.org/tcgd/2011/programme.php Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:23GMT Transatlantic Dialogue Columbia Law School, the European Corporate Governance Institute and the Said Business School, University of Oxford are hosting an academic conference in Oxford on 13-14 Jan 2012 on the theme of Corporate Governance After the Crisis. Attendance is by invitation only. http://www.ecgi.org/ceo/2012/index.php Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:26GMT Corporate Governance After the Crisis The ECGI Board has approved the recommendation of the Research Associates Committee, chaired by Professor Erik Berglof, to appoint 13 new ECGI Research Associates. This brings the number of ECGI Research Associates to 110 and the number of Research Members (including ECGI Fellows) to 151. http://www.ecgi.org/members_directory/research_associates_2011.php Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:54GMT ECGI Research Associates The ECGI is organising a session "Corporate governance rules as policy instruments for change" at the 11th European Corporate Governance Conference. Organised by the Warsaw Stock Exchange in co-operation with the European Commission, this conference will be held on 15th Nov 2011 in the Sheraton Hotel, Warsaw. The project is under the official patronage of the Polish Presidency of the EU Council. http://www.ecgc.pl/eng/agenda/15-11-2011-agenda Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:57GMT EU Presidency Conferences The Independent Commission on Banking under the chairmanship of Sir John Vickers, published its Final Report on 12 Sep 2011. In Jun 2010, the Commission was asked to consider structural and related non-structural reforms to the UK banking sector to promote financial stability and competition, and to make recommendations to the Government by Sep 2011. The Final Report sets out the Commission’s final analysis and recommendations. http://www.ecgi.org/documents/icb_final_report_12sep2011.pdf Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:38GMT Vickers Report ECGI Fellow, Colin Mayer, Peter Moores Dean and Professor of Management Studies at the Said Business School, University of Oxford, gave the Annual Lecture at the Duisenberg School of Finance on Friday 8 April. The theme of his talk was Governance and Regulation in Crisis: Addressing the Next One. The lecture was followed by a panel discussion and then the audience were invited to ask questions of the speaker and the panel. http://www.ecgi.org/conferences/agm2011/lecture_programme.php Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:45GMT Governance and Regulation in Crisis On 5 Apr 2011, the EU Commission launched a public consultation on possible ways forward to improve existing corporate governance mechanisms. The objective of the Green Paper is to have a broad debate on the issues raised and allow all interested parties to see which areas the Commission has identified as relevant in the field of corporate governance. The deadline for submitting contributions in response to the consultation is 22 Jul 2011. http://www.ecgi.org/commission/documents/eu_corporate_governance_framework_5apr2011_en.pdf Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:13GMT EU Green Paper The winners of the 2011 Working Paper prizes were announced at the ECGI's General Assembly held in Amsterdam on 8 Apr 2011. http://www.ecgi.org/wp/video/index.php Fri, 08 Apr 2011 09:30GMT Working Paper prizes The ninth edition of the ECGI Research Newsletter focuses on Corporate governance and the new Financial Regulation: Complements or Substitutes? It draws its material from the seventh conference in the Transatlantic Corporate Governance Dialogue (TCGD) series which was held in Brussels in Oct 2010. http://www.ecgi.org/research/research_newsletter/vol9.pdf Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:01GMT Research Research Newsletter Essays authored by two ECGI Fellows, Professor Guido Ferrarini and Professor Patrick Bolton with academic colleagues have been awarded runner-up prizes in the prestigious International Centre for Financial Regulation/Financial Times Research Prize 2010. http://www.icffr.org/Research/Research-Prizes/Research-Prize-2010/ICFR-Research-Prize-2010---Winning-Essay.aspx Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:32GMT Research Prizes On the recommendation of the ECGI’s Nominations Committee, Eddy Wymeersch was invited to become a member of the Board. On his acceptance, the Board unanimously nominated him to serve as Chairman of the ECGI with immediate effect. His Board appointment is subject to ratification at the ECGI’s next General Assembly which takes place in Amsterdam on Friday, 8th Apr 2011. Antonio Borges has resigned from the role of ECGI Chairman in order to take up the post of Director of the European Department of the International Monetary Fund. http://www.ecgi.org/news/release_chairman_26nov2010.php Fri, 26 Nov 2010 11:06GMT ECGI Board The ECGI organised a session on this theme at the 10th European Corporate Governance Conference which took place in Brussels on 6-7 December. http://www.guberna.be/actie/index.html Fri, 24 Sep 2010 09:46GMT Conferences Shareholder activism EU Presidency Conferences The theme of the seventh conference in the Transatlantic Corporate Governance Dialogue (TCGD) series, which took place in Brussels at the Bibliothèque Solvay on Monday, 25th Oct 2010, was "Corporate Governance and the new Financial Regulation: Complements or Substitutes". Keynote speakers were Michel Barnier, Commissioner for Internal Market and Services at the European Commission, Troy A Paredes, Commissioner, The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Christine M Cumming, First Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York. http://www.ecgi.org/tcgd/2010/programme.php Wed, 22 Sep 2010 06:58GMT Conferences Transatlantic Dialogue The eigth edition of the ECGI Research Newsletter focuses on the Governance and Regulation of Financial Institutions: Lessons from the Crisis. It draws on research papers made available to inform the recent academic conference which was held at the Madrid campus of the IESE Business School under the auspices of the Spanish Presidency of the EU. http://www.ecgi.org/research/research_newsletter/vol8.pdf Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:01GMT Research Newsletter Governance and Regulation of Financial Institutions Research An academic conference in the Yale ECGI Oxford (YEO) series, this year's event, YEO 2010, focuses on perhaps the most elusive issue in the field: whether or to what extent corporate governance may be identified as having a causal relationship with corporate performance. The organisers have invited some of the world's top scholars along with rising academic stars to tackle this research challenge. This conference is targeted at academics, policy-makers and the corporate audience for whom first-hand access to the latest corporate governance research is essential to their job. Attendance is by invitation only. http://www.ecgi.org/yeo/2010/index.php Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:58GMT Yale ECGI Oxford Conferences Conferences On 2 Jun 2010, the Commission issued a Green Paper launching a public consultation on possible ways forward to improve corporate governance in financial institutions and remuneration policies. The deadline for responses is 1st Sep 2010. http://www.ecgi.org/commission/documents/green_paper_com2010_284_en.pdf Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:03GMT EU Presidency Conferences Conferences Under the auspices of the Spanish Presidency of the EU, the ECGI in conjunction with the CEPR and IESE Business School held an academic conference at the Madrid campus of the IESE Business School on Wednesday, 16th Jun 2010. The theme of the conference was The Governance and Regulation of Financial Institutions - Lessons from the Crisis. http://www.ecgi.org/presidency/madrid2010/programme.php Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:00GMT EU Presidency Conferences Conferences The winners of the 2010 Working Paper prizes were announced at ECGI's General Assembly held at the University of Luxembourg on 7 May 2010. http://www.ecgi.org/wp/winners_2010.htm Mon, 10 May 2010 16:02GMT Working Paper prizes On 7 May at its 2010 General Assembly held at the University of Luxembourg, the ECGI announced the appointment of five new Fellows of the Institute drawn from academia in Europe and North America. They augment the Fellowship of the ECGI which now numbers 42 distinguished academics. http://www.ecgi.org/news/release_fellows_7may2010.php Mon, 10 May 2010 09:43GMT ECGI Fellows Under the auspices of the Spanish Presidency of the EU, the ECGI in conjunction with the CEPR and IESE Business School will be holding an academic conference at the Madrid campus of the IESE Business School on Wednesday, 16th Jun 2010. The theme of the conference will be The Governance and Regulation of Financial Institutions Lessons from the Crisis. Attendance is by invitation only. http://www.ecgi.org/presidency/madrid2010/programme.php Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:27GMT EU Presidency Conferences Conferences The international legal practice, Allen and Overy, has generously agreed to support an annual prize for scientific papers on corporate governance. The Allen and Overy Law Prize will be awarded to the paper published in the ECGI Law Working Paper series which is deemed to have made the most substantial contribution to the knowledge of corporate governance in Europe. http://www.ecgi.org/news/release_5feb2010.php Fri, 5 Feb 2010 15:34GMT Working Paper prizes The conference series "European Company Law and Corporate Governance Conferences" was launched at a full-day public conference in The Hague on 18 Oct 2004 during the Dutch EU Presidency and following the publication of the Winter Group Report. In subsequent years, conferences have been held in several countries during their respective EU Presidency. The ECGI has been involved in a number of these. The ECGI has collated the valuable work undertaken by a number of parties over the years into a single repository for the first time for the convenience of scholars, practitioners and policy-makers alike. http://www.ecgi.org/presidency/index.php Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:45 GMT EU Presidency Conferences European Company Law and Corporate Governance Conferences Conferences These will take place in Luxembourg on 6-7 May. On Friday 7 May, the General Assembly and Annual Lecture will be held at the University of Luxembourg. ECGI Fellow, Professor Patrick Bolton, Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business, Columbia Business School, will give the Annual Lecture. The dinner will take place the night before at the offices of ArcelorMittal in Luxembourg. Further details will follow. http://www.ecgi.org/ Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:30 GMT Conferences The seventh edition of the ECGI Research Newsletter focuses on Government in Corporate Governance. It draws on research papers made available to inform the recent Transatlantic Corporate Governance Dialogue Conference in Washington DC and a report on that Conference. http://www.ecgi.org/research/research_newsletter/vol7.pdf Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:30 GMT Research Newsletter Government in Corporate Governance Research By arrangement with the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), ECGI Working Papers are available online free of charge from the SSRN's Financial and Legal Research Institutes Papers Series. As at 30 Oct 2009, the total number of downloads are 274,637 in the Finance series and 149,928 in the Law series. http://www.ecgi.org/wp/ssrn_downloads.php?series=Finance Mon, 2 Nov 2009 18:35 GMT Working papers Research The Nobel Prize committee has awarded the 2009 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in memory of Alfred Nobel to two economists who have made fundamental contributions to our understanding of property rights and the boundaries of the firms. In particular, the work of Oliver Williamson helps us address the challenges of institutional design and corporate governance: -all feasible forms of organisation are flawed, ... we need to understand the trade-offs that are going on, the factors that are responsible for using one form of governance rather than another, the strengths and weaknesses that are associated with each of them". http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2009/press.html Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:23 GMT Nobel Prizes The Swedish Corporate Governance Board and the ECGI, in conjunction with the Swedish EU Presidency, will arrange the 8th European Corporate Governance Conference in Stockholm, Sweden on 2-3 Dec 2009. The three main topics will be: 'The Future of Corporate Governance Regulation in the EU', 'Regulating Remuneration – The Way Ahead' and 'Government in Corporate Governance'. http://www.iab.se/EisfluuClient/default.aspx?id=3785562 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:15 GMT Conferences The sixth conference in the Transatlantic Corporate Governance Dialogue (TCGD) series took place in Washington on Thursday 17th September. The theme was the new role of Government in corporate governance. Mary Schapiro, Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission and Professor Mario Monti, President, Università Bocconi, and Former European Commissioner for the Single Market, Financial Services and Taxation, and for Competition Policy, made keynote speeches. http://www.ecgi.org/tcgd/2009/programme.php Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:42 GMT Conferences Transatlantic Dialogue The ECGI and the University of Luxembourg signed an agreement on 18 Jun 2009 towards the establishment of a new entity, the European Corporate Governance Research Foundation (ECGRF), in Luxembourg. The announcement of the agreement was made at a conference on “Corporate Governance in Crisis”, in Luxembourg under the High Patronage of European Commission President, Jose Manuel Barroso. http://www.ecgi.org/luxembourg/agreement_press_release_18jun2008_en.php Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:12 GMT European Corporate Governance Research Foundation The ECGI Board has approved the recommendation of the Research Associates Committee, chaired by Professor Klaus Hopt, to appoint 23 new ECGI Research Associates. This brings the number of ECGI Research Associates to 101 and the number of Research Members (including ECGI Fellows) to 138. http://www.ecgi.org/members_directory/research_associates_2009.php Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:13 GMT ECGI Research Associates Under the high patronage of José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, the ECGI and the University of Luxembourg with support from the Chambre de Commerce, Luxembourg and the Institut Luxembourgeois des Administrateurs held a free half-day Conference on Thursday, 18th Jun on the occasion of the signing of an agreement between the ECGI and the University of Luxembourg for the establishment of the European Corporate Governance Research Foundation in Luxembourg. http://www.ecgi.org/luxembourg/conference/programme.php Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:45 GMT Conferences The winners of the 2009 Working Paper prizes were announced at ECGI's General Assembly held at the Paris Chamber of Commerce on 17 Apr 2009. http://www.ecgi.org/wp/winners_2009.htm Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:41 GMT Working Paper prizes These took place in Paris on 16-17 April. The General Assembly and Annual Lecture were held at the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry. ECGI Fellow, Professor Franklin Allen, Nippon Life Professor of Finance and Economics at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania gave a presentation on Corporate governance and the current crisis. http://www.ecgi.org/conferences/agm2009/programme.php Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:56 GMT Conferences The European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the ECGI organised a discussion forum at the offices of the EBRD in London on Wednesday, 18th Mar 2009. The event was open to ECGI members and invited guests only. http://www.ecgi.org/conferences/ebrd2009/programme.php Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:24 GMT Conferences Bank Governance The sixth edition of the ECGI Research Newsletter focuses on Private Equity. It draws on working papers published in the ECGI’s Law and Finance Working Paper series, interviews with a leading academic and two practitioners involved in the Private Equity industry, and a review of the book The Venture Capital Cycle. http://www.ecgi.org/research/research_newsletter/vol6.pdf Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:14 GMT Research Newsletter Private Equity The winners of the 2008 ECGI Best Paper Competition were announced at a ceremony in Stockholm on 9 Dec 2008 organised by the ECGI, the Review of Finance and the Swedish Centre for Business and Policy Studies (SNS), and sponsored by the European Corporate Governance Training Network, the Saïd Business School (SBS) and the Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Research Foundation. http://www.ecgi.org/competitions/rof/index.php Tue, 3 Feb 2009 15:19 GMT Research Working papers The Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law, Cambridge and the ECGI will host a one-day conference on Monday 12th Jan 2009. With large UK companies typically characterised by a separation of ownership and control, the conference will explore what explains the British pattern, how UK equity markets evolved over time, what impact regulation has had on the development of British publicly traded companies, how corporate ownership and control has evolved elsewhere and whether a divorce between ownership and control will continue to be a hallmark of corporate governance going forward. http://www.ecgi.org/conferences/3cl_jan2009/flyer.pdf Wed, 25 Nov 2008 22:29 GMT Conferences Corporate Ownership and Control In the SSRN's inaugural Top Entrepreneurship Research and Policy Network (ERPN) Organizations Ranking, the ECGI has been ranked fourth behind the NBER, Harvard and the World Bank. This ranking is based on downloads of papers classified in SSRN's ERPN eLibrary and includes both U.S. and international organizations and will be updated monthly. http://hq.ssrn.com/ Wed, 25 Nov 2008 11:42 GMT Working papers Research Professor Guido Ferrarini, Professor of Business Law and Capital Markets Law, University of Genoa and Vice Chairman of the ECGI made a presentation on this topic at the E.N.G.’s 7th annual senior executive summit in Brussels on Executive Compensation and Benefits, 16-18 Sep 2008. Research on remuneration practices of FTSEurofirst300 companies is currently being conducted by Professor Ferrarini and Maria-Cristina Ungureanu at the University of Genoa. http://www.ecgi.org/remuneration/documents/ferrarini_presentation.pdf Wed, 1 Oct 2008 14:58 GMT Executive compensation Research Topic pages Following the Oxford Conference in June, two papers have been chosen by the Competition Jury to take part in the final round of this Competition which takes place in Stockholm in Dec at the same time as the events surrounding the 2008 Nobel Prize ceremony. The presenters of these two papers will attend the Nobel Prize ceremony. http://www.ecgi.org/competitions/rof/stockholm_final.php Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:47 GMT Best Paper Competition The final conference in the four-year long European Corporate Governance Training Network (ECGTN) programme will be hosted by the IESE Business School, Barcelona from 11-12 September. Papers will be presented by Early Stage Researchers trained under this initiative funded by the European Commission, as well as by participating industry and North American nodes and experienced researchers http://www.ecgi.org/ecgtn/events/barcelona2008/programme.php Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:16 GMT Training Conferences The fifth conference in the Transatlantic Corporate Governance Dialogue (TCGD) series will take place in Brussels on Tuesday 9th September. The theme is corporate governance standards and financial stability. Charlie McCreevy, European Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services and SEC Commissioner Kathleen L. Casey will make keynote speeches. The conference programme also features two sessions of briefings and concludes with a panel that will discuss regulatory inconsistencies and tensions between Europe and the United States and whether a common approach across the Atlantic is now desirable or achievable http://www.ecgi.org/tcgd/2008/programme.php Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:22 GMT Transatlantic Dialogue Conferences The papers presented at a Symposium held at the University of Sheffield Management School in Jun 2007 have been published in a special issue of the Journal of Corporate Finance [14(2008) 163-165]. The Preface to this special issue has been made available courtesy of the publishers, Elsevier. http://www.shef.ac.uk/management/events/cocogo/timetable.html#Symposium Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:02 GMT Conferences The article which appeared in the 3 May 2008 edition of the Economist in the Business section under the heading "Money spinners; Why German companies should not appoint bankers to the board" draws most of its source material from the paper "Bankers on the Boards of German Firms: What they do, what they are worth, and why they are (still) there" by Ingolf Dittmann, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Ernst Maug, University of Mannheim and ECGI, and Christoph Schneider, University of Mannheim which is just been published in ECGI's Finance Working paper series (No 196/2008) http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11294226 Thu, 15 May 2008 11:38 GMT Working papers Twelve papers from an entry of over 85 have been chosen by the Competition Jury to be presented at a conference at the Said Business School, Oxford on 11-12 Jun 2008. Under the rules of the Competition, eight of these will be invited for submission to the Review of Finance fast-track refereeing process, free of charge. Four refereed papers will be invited for presentation to the final round in Stockholm in Dec 2008. The winning paper will be awarded a prize of €10,000 http://www.ecgi.org/competitions/rof/programme.php Thu, 15 May 2008 11:17 GMT Best Paper Competition The 2008 ECGTN Summer School will take place between 11-15 Aug at the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo in Santander. It will provide an introduction on current corporate governance issues from an economic, financial, and legal perspective. The focus will be on issues associated with external financing of firms, managerial discretion, and small investor protection. The Summer School is intended for doctoral and post-doctoral researchers in economics, finance, and law. Participation is compulsory for Early Stage Researchers of the European Corporate Governance Training Network (ECGTN) http://www.cemfi.es/summer_school_uimp/home.asp Thu, 08 May 2008 19:26 GMT Training On 11 Apr at its 2008 General Assembly held at the IESE Business School, Barcelona, ECGI members approved the nomination of Daniel Lebegue, President of the Institut Francais des Administrateurs, to the ECGI Board. Daniel Lebegue has had a distinguished career in both the public and private sector in France. He replaces Paul Arlman who has stood down after five years on the ECGI Board. A founder member of the ECGI, Paul Arlman has played a significant role in the promotion and marketing of the Institute http://www.ecgi.org/members_directory/member.php?member_id=942 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:25 GMT ECGI Board On 11 Apr at its 2008 General Assembly held at the IESE Business School, Barcelona, the ECGI announced the appointment of five new Fellows of the Institute drawn from academia in Europe and North America. They augment the 21 inaugural Fellows who were nominated in 2002, 6 nominated in 2003 and 5 in 2005 http://www.ecgi.org/news/release_11apr2008.php Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:15 GMT ECGI Fellows The winners of the 2008 Working Paper prizes were announced at ECGI's General Assembly held at the IESE Business School, Barcelona on 11 Apr 2008 http://www.ecgi.org/wp/winners_2008.htm Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:10 GMT Working Paper prizes Research The fifth edition of the ECGI Research Newsletter focuses on Capital Market Competiveness. It draws on working papers published in the ECGI’s Law and Finance Working Paper series and contains a short report on our recent Transatlantic Corporate Governance Dialogue Conference in Washington DC. http://www.ecgi.org/research/research_newsletter/vol5.pdf Fri, 14 Feb 2008 16:35 GMT Research Newsletter Capital Market Competitiveness Research Transatlantic Dialogue The ECGI's sixth General Assembly will take place on Friday 11 Apr 2008 at the IESE Business School, Barcelona. It will be followed by a keynote speech "Shareholders access to proxies" by Professor Luigi Zingales, Robert C. McCormack Professor Entrepreneurship and Finance, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and ECGI Fellow. Members are invited to register to attend the General Assembly, the Annual Lecture and the dinner the preceding night. http://www.ecgi.org/conferences/agm2008/programme.php Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:35 GMT Shareholders access to proxies Conferences Copies of the presentations given at this year's conference on the theme of "Corporate Governance Standards and Capital Market Competitiveness" are now available. A full report will appear on the TCGD website in the near future. http://www.ecgi.org/tcgd/2007/presentations.php Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:15 GMT Corporate Governance Standards Capital Market Competitiveness Conferences Transatlantic Dialogue This new competition, organised by the ECGI, the Review of Finance and the Swedish Centre for Business and Policy Studies (SNS), and sponsored by the European Corporate Governance Training Network, the Saïd Business School (SBS) and the Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Research Foundation, aims to stimulate researchers to produce and publish outstanding articles in the field of corporate governance. http://www.ecgi.org/competitions/rof/index.php Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:30 GMT Best Paper Competition This conference which will take place at the campus of Sabanci University in Istanbul from 15-17 Nov 2007 will debate some key issues regarding corporate governance in emerging markets, including political power and corporate control, the relationship between financial sector development and corporate governance, the role of corporate boards in emerging markets and issues related to enforcement mechanisms. http://www.ecgi.org/conferences/events.php Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:15 GMT Emerging Markets Conferences The theme of the 2007 Conference is "Corporate Governance Standards and Capital Market Competitiveness". This free all-day conference co-sponsored by the American Law Institute and the ECGI will take place on Tuesday, 9 Oct 2007 at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington D.C. Keynote speeches will be made by SEC Chairman Christopher Cox and CESR Chairman Eddy Wymeersch. http://www.ecgi.org/tcgd/2007/programme.php Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:00 GMT Corporate Governance Standards Capital Market Competitiveness Conferences Transatlantic Dialogue The Centre for Corporate Governance at the London Business School and the European Corporate Governance Institute are organising a conference sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council on Monday, 3 Sep 2007. The conference will analyse current trends in the corporate governance debate. Attendance at this academic conference is restricted. The registration deadline for eligible delegates is 5 Aug 2007. http://www.ecgi.org/conferences/lbs2007/call.pdf Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:23 GMT Conferences Corporate Governance The Comissão do Mercado de Valores Mobiliários (CMVM) and ECGI are organising a free one-day conference in Lisbon on Wednesday, 17 Oct 2007 to examine the challenges facing corporate Europe. Topics to be covered include Obstacles to Corporate Restructuring, Private Equity Buyouts, Active Ownership and Corporate Control and Politics. http://www.cmvm.pt/NR/exeres/3836E1E7-BEDE-4907-92BE-7E12BFE212BC.htm Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:35 GMT Private Equity Corporate Control Conferences Active Ownership The fourth edition of the ECGI Research Newsletter, focuses on the topical issue of hedge funds and shareholder activism. It features a digest of six working papers on the topic from ECGI's two Working Paper series, interviews with a leading academic and two practitioners, and a review of the book Hedge Funds – Risk and regulation. http://www.ecgi.org/research/research_newsletter/vol4.pdf Wed, 04 Jul 2007 06:30 GMT Hedge Funds Shareholder activism Research Research Newsletter The Copenhagen Business School and the European Corporate Governance Institute are organising a free all-day conference on 18 Sep 2007 to take stock of the issues of surrounding control enhancing mechanisms and their economic impact at the European level and in international comparison. The conference will use the European Commission's recently published study (see below) as the basis for discussion. http://www.cbs.dk/forskning_viden/konferencer/cem Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:45 GMT Control Enhancing Mechanisms One share One vote Conferences A video recording of the Oxford Union-style debate on the motion “This House believes that long-term shareholders should have double voting rights” proposed by Bertrand Collomb, Chairman of Lafarge and opposed by Guy Jubb, Head of Corporate Governance, Standard Life Investments is now available. The motion was defeated by 55 votes to 13 with 3 abstentions. http://www.ecgi.org/conferences/agm2007/video/index.php Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:00 GMT General Assembly Voting rights Oxford Union-style debate The European Commission has published an external study on the question of proportionality between ownership and control in EU listed companies. The study was carried out by Institutional Shareholder Services Europe (ISS Europe), the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and the law firm Shearman and Sterling LLP. http://www.ecgi.org/osov/final_report.php Mon, 4 Jun 2007 20:15 GMT Research One share One vote The winners of the 2007 Working Paper prizes were announced at ECGI's General Assembly held at the Institute for Law and Finance, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt on 19 Apr 2007. The winner of the Egon Zehnder International Prize for the best paper in either series on company boards and their role in corporate governance was Jeffrey N. Gordon, Alfred W. Bressler Professor of Law, Columbia Law School and ECGI for his paper "Independent Directors and Stock Market Prices: The New Corporate Governance Paradigm" (ECGI Law Working Paper No. 074/2006). The winners of the Standard Life Investments Finance Prize for the best paper in the Finance series were Professor Belen Villalonga, Finance Unit, Harvard Business School and Professor Raphael Amit, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania for their paper "Benefits and Costs of Control-Enhancing Mechanisms in U.S. Family Firms" (ECGI Finance Working Paper No.131/2006). The winners of the De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek Law Prize for the best paper in the Law series were Professor Marcel Kahan, School of Law, New York University and Professor Edward Rock, School of Law, University of Pennsylvania for their paper "Hedge Funds in Corporate Governance and Corporate Control" (ECGI Law Working Paper No. 076/2006). http://www.ecgi.org/wp/winners_2007.htm Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:00 GMT Working Paper prizes Hedge Funds This essay describing the differences in the ownership structure of companies in the three main economies of continental Europe - Germany, France, and Italy - with comparisons to the United States and the United Kingdom by two ECGI Research Associates, Luca Enriques and Paolo Volpin has just been published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives (Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 117-140, Winter 2007). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=970796 Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:48 GMT Research Corporate Governance reform Organised by the Center for Financial Studies (CFS) jointly with the European Corporate Governance Training Network (ECGTN), this will take place from 12-19 Aug 2007 in Eltville (near Frankfurt am Main, Germany) http://www.ecgi.org/ecgtn/events/eltville2007/details.pdf Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:30 GMT Conferences Training Corporate Governance and Capital Markets The ECGI Board has approved the recommendation of the Research Associates Committee, chaired by Professor Klaus Hopt, Director at the Max Planck Institute of Foreign Private and Private International Law, to appoint 30 new ECGI Research Associates. This brings the number of Research Associates to 82 and the number of Research Members (including ECGI Fellows) to 114. http://www.ecgi.org/members_directory/research_associates_2006.php Wed, 07 Feb 2007 18:30 GMT ECGI Research Associates The third edition of the ECGI Research Newsletter, focuses on the important topic of boards. Some of the themes of the research covered in this newsletter are board structure and the differences between the unitary and two tier models, the dual role of boards as advisors and monitors, and company and board performance in relation to board compensation, gender diversity and the time commitment of independent directors. The research is given context by the views of a leading academic, a partner in a leading executive search firm and a director with both full-time and independent board experience. The featured book on corporate governance and chairmanship is by one of the founding fathers of corporate governance, Sir Adrian Cadbury. http://www.ecgi.org/research/research_newsletter/vol3.pdf Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:00 GMT Boards Research Research Newsletter With the publication of a Working Paper, The Returns to Shareholder Activism Evidence from a Clinical Study of the Hermes U.K. Focus Fund, the ECGI has created a new topic page on Shareholder Activism. http://www.ecgi.org/activism/index.php Mon, 04 Dec 2006 17:34 GMT Research Shareholder activism Topic pages In a consortium led by Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and alongside Shearman and Sterling LLP, the ECGI has won a contract to study the proportionality between ownership and control in EU listed companies. http://www.ecgi.org/osov/index.php Wed, 01 Nov 2006 13:08 GMT Research One share One vote The second edition of the ECGI Research Newsletter, focuses on the important subject of Controlling Shareholders. Drawing from six published papers in our Finance and Law Working paper series, it looks at how controlling ownership is evident in some companies and not others and why this has developed over time. http://www.ecgi.org/research/research_newsletter/vol2.pdf Tue, 27 Jun 2006 12:00 GMT Controlling Shareholders Research Research Newsletter The ECGI is a partner in a consortium co-ordinated by the European Business Register, that has successfully bid for, and is currently undertaking, a project under the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Commission. http://www.ecgi.org/brite/index.php Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:00 GMT Interoperability European Business Register