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12th European
Corporate Governance & Company Law Conference in Dublin |
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The conference,
held as part of Ireland’s Presidency of the Council
of the European Union, is the twelfth event in this Conference
series which started in 2004. The principle focus of this
conference is the European Commission's Action Plan on Company
Law and Corporate Governance which was published on 12 December
2012. The ECGI is organising two sessions at this event on
the afternoon of Thursday, 16 May. The topic will be Short-termism,
the impact of financial markets and the UK Kay Review. See: |
 The
Conference website for details and registration
The
ECGI's Presidency Conferences repository
The
Commission's Action Plan
The
Kay Review of UK Equity Markets and Long-term Decision Making |
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Oxford Union-style
debate |
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Immediately following the General Assembly (see below), the
ECGI will host an Oxford Union-style debate on the motion
that "This
House believes that the shareholder-oriented corporation
is flawed". This
event is open to the public and also takes place at the offices of PricewaterhouseCoopers
in Dublin. That afternoon and the next day, the Irish Presidency
Conference will take place in the nearby Dublin Convention
Centre. See: |
Programme
for the debate
Rules
of debating procedure and history of the Oxford Union
Online
registration for the general public which is mandatory |
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ECGI's
2013 Dinner and General Assembly in Dublin |
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2013 General Assembly of the ECGI
will take place in Dublin on Thursday 16 May. The annual
dinner for members and invited guests will take place the
night before. Over dinner, the winners of the 2013 Standard
Life Finance Working Paper prize and the 2013 Allen & Overy
Law Working Paper prize will be announced. |
For ECGI members,
see in the Members' area of this website:
Full
details and registration
Agenda and accompanying papers now available
ECGI Members should email Christine
Miller if they need a reminder of the Members' area login
details |
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Academic conference
on Commission Action Plan |
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With
the publication on 12 December 2012 by the European Commission
of the Action Plan outlining the initiatives that the
Commission intends to take in order to modernise the company
law and corporate governance framework, the ECGI with the
support of the European Commission and with sponsorship from
the London Business School's Centre for Corporate Governance
held an academic conference on Wednesday, 23 January 2013
to discuss the implications of the Plan. Attendance
was by invitation only. A
report of the meeting is now available. See: |
Introduction
Programme
for the event
Report
of the proceedings
List
of participants
Background
papers |
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Corporate Governance and Banking Union in a transatlantic perspective |
Keynote speakers
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Banking Union in the Eurozone and the formation of a new Eurozone banking regulator within the European Central Bank will have a major impact on the political and economic structure of Europe. This timely conference provided an overview of European Banking Union proposals and issues, particularly in the light of the deliberations at the European Council Meeting of 13/14 December 2012. It also looked at any lessons that might be drawn from US experience. The ninth conference in the Transatlantic Corporate Governance
Dialogue (TCGD) series took place at the National Bank of Belgium on Monday 17 December 2012. The event commenced with a high-level discussion on the major corporate governance issues facing Europe and the United States. See:
Programme
Presentations and speeches from the conference
Video recordings of the event
Background reading
List of attendees
Background to the TCGD series and previous TCGD conferences |
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Sheila
Bair |
Michel Barnier |
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Luc
Coene |
Troy Paredes |
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EU Asia Corporate Governance Dialogue Conference - Comparing Regulatory Reforms and Market Practices |
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At the request of the European Commission,
the ECGI and the University of Tokyo have established a parallel
initiative to the Transatlantic Corporate Governance Dialogue (TCGD) qv with one between Europe and Asia, known as the EU Asia Corporate Governance
Dialogue (EACGD). The inaugural event took place in Tokyo on Friday,
6th July 2012 with the theme Comparing Regulatory Reforms and Market Practices. |
Background to this new initiative
Organisations associated with the Dialogue (Dialogue Partners)
2012
Conference Programme
2012 Conference speeches & presentation slides
Video recordings of the conference |
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New ECGI Chairman and Board Members |
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At a Board Meeting on 12 June 2012, and following the resignation of Eddy Wymeersch in order to devote more time to his other extensive commitments, the Board unanimously nominated Jörgen Holmquist, former Director General for the Single Market and Financial Markets in the European Commission and a former Budget Director in the Swedish Ministry of Finance, to serve as Chairman of the ECGI with immediate effect.
At the same meeting, on the recommendation of the ECGI’s Nominations Committee, the Board co-opted Lisa Rabbe, Managing Director, Head of Public Policy – EMEA, Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited, and Daniela Weber-Rey, a Partner in the Frankfurt office of Clifford Chance, to the Board. See:
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Press release announcing these changes
The new ECGI Board |
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ECGI 2012 Annual Lecture |
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ECGI Fellow, Marco Pagano, Professor of Economics, Facoltà di Economia at the Università di Napoli Federico II, gave the Annual Lecture on the theme of Market Transparency and Company Disclosure. Jens Henriksson,
President, NASDAQ OMX Stockholm gave the response. The session was moderated by ECGI Board Member and Fellow, Professor Erik Berglof,
Chief Economist and Special Adviser to the President, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). |
| View video recordings on streaming video (PC or iPad versions) |
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Three new ECGI Board Members |
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Following the departure of four Board Members, Jordi Canals, Daniel Lebègue André Prüm and
Jaap Winter, three new Board members were elected at the 2012 ECGI General Assembly in Stockholm on 27 April 2012.
The new Board members
are: Jordi Gual, Chief Economist and Head of Research at la Caixa, Professor Gerard Hertig, Professor of Law at ETH Zurich and ECGI Fellow, and Jörgen Holmquist, former Director General for the Single Market and Financial Markets in the European Commission. See: |
Biography of Jordi Gual
Biography of Professor Gerard Hertig
Biography of Jörgen Holmquist
The new ECGI Board |
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Five new Fellows appointed |
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On 27 April at its 2012 General Assembly held in Stockholm, 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 46 distinguished academics. See: |
Press release announcing the appointments
List of all ECGI Fellows |
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2012 Working Paper prizes awarded at General Assembly |
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The winners of the 2012 Standard Life Investments Finance Working Paper prize and the 2012 Allen & Overy Law Working Paper prize were announced at the ECGI's General Assembly held in Stockholm on 27 April 2012. See: |
Details of the 2012 prize winners
Previous years' winners
Terms
of Reference for the prizes |
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ECGI's 2012 Dinner, General Assembly and Annual Lecture |
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These took place in Stockholm on 26-27 April. On Friday 27 April, the General Assembly and Annual Lecture was held at the Royal Coin Cabinet, Stockholm. Marco Pagano, gave the Annual Lecture (which was open to the public - see link to video recordings above). The dinner for ECGI members and invited guests took place the night before. During the dinner, the winners of the 2012 Working Paper prizes were announced. |
For members of the general public, see:
Annual lecture, presenter slides and list of attendees
For ECGI members, see in the Members' area of this website:
General Assembly agenda and accompanying papers
ECGI Members should email Christine Miller if they need a reminder of the Members' area login details |
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Shareholder Engagement: What is 'Appropriate'? |
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The
eighth conference in the Transatlantic Corporate Governance
Dialogue (TCGD) series took place in Washington at
the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington
D.C. on Thursday, 15th December 2011. The theme this year was Shareholder
Engagement: What is 'Appropriate'?. Keynote
speakers were Mary L. Schapiro, Chairman of the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Nadia Calvino,
Deputy Director General, DG Internal Market and Services
at the European Commission.
See: |
Programme
Video recordings of the presentations
Keynote speech and presentations
List
of delegates attending
Background to the TCGD series and previous TCGD conferences |
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EU Green Paper and the ECGI Research Agenda |
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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. See: |
The conference programme
A report of the proceedings and resulting research opportunities
The list of participants |
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Corporate Governance After the Crisis |
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Columbia Law School, the European Corporate Governance Institute and the Said Business School, University of Oxford hosted an academic conference in Oxford on 13-14 January 2012 on the theme of Corporate Governance After the Crisis. Attendance was by invitation only. See: |
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13 new Research Associates nominated |
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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. |
Details of the new Research Associates
List of all ECGI Research Associates
Research Associates Committee and its remit
Research portal on this site |
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11th European Corporate Governance Conference in Warsaw |
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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 November 2011 in the Sheraton Hotel, Warsaw. The project is under the official patronage of the Polish Presidency of the EU Council. See: |
The programme of the Conference website
Online registration
Repository of papers and presentations from earlier conferences in this series |
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Final Report of the Independent Commission on Banking (The Vickers Report) |
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The Independent Commission on Banking under the chairmanship of Sir John Vickers, published its Final Report on 12 September 2011. In June 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 September 2011.
The Final Report sets out the Commission’s final analysis and recommendations. See: |
The final report
The ICB website for further information |
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ECGI Annual Lecture |
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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. See: |
A video recording of the event
A copy of Professor Mayer's slide presentation
The Programme of events |
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