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	Conference: Corporate Governance and Performance: causation?
	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. See:
	Background Schedule Registration details

	EU Consultation on the corporate governance in financial institutions and remuneration policies
	On 2 June 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 September 2010. See:
	The Green paper Press release Other information from the Commission website

	Conference: The Governance and Regulation of Financial Institutions - Lessons from the Crisis
	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 June 2010. The theme of the conference was The Governance and Regulation of Financial Institutions Lessons from the Crisis. Attendance was by invitation only. See:
	The Conference programme and background Other conferences held under the auspices of the EU presidency

	2010 Working Paper prizes awarded at General Assembly
	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. See:
	Details of the 2010 prize winners Press release announcing the winners Previous years' winners Terms of Reference for the prizes

	Five new Fellows appointed
	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. See:
	Press release announcing the appointments List of all ECGI Fellows

	Allen & Overy to sponsor Law Working Paper prize
	The international legal practice, Allen & Overy, has generously agreed to support an annual prize for scientific papers on corporate governance. The Allen & 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. See:
	Press release announcing the sponsorship ECGI Working Paper prizes and previous winners Terms of Reference for the ECGI Working Paper prizes

	ECGI's 2010 Dinner, General Assembly and Annual Lecture
	These took place in Luxembourg on 6-7 May. On Friday 7 May, the General Assembly and Annual Lecture was held at the University of Luxembourg. ECGI Fellow, Professor Patrick Bolton, Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business, Columbia Business School, gave the Annual Lecture on the theme of Rewarding Illusory Alpha: Governance and the Crisis. The dinner took place the night before at the offices of ArcelorMittal in Luxembourg. See:
	Annual Lecture details Annual dinner, General Assembly and further information for ECGI members (Password required)

	ECGI launches EU Presidency Conference repository
	The conference series "European Company Law and Corporate Governance Conferences" was launched at a full-day public conference in The Hague on 18 October 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. See:
	EU Presidency conferences on European Company Law and Corporate Governance

	Latest Research Newsletter focuses on Government in Corporate Governance
	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. See:
	Volume 7 Winter 2009 Government in Corporate Governance Video recording of the Washington conference Earlier editions of the Newsletter

	Top 10 downloads in the Working Paper Series
	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 October 2009, the total number of downloads are 274,637 in the Finance series and 149,928 in the Law series. For the top 10 papers by downloads in each series, see:
	Top 10 downloads in the Working Paper Series in Finance Top 10 downloads in the Working Paper Series in Law

	Corporate Governance recognised in Nobel Prizes
	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". See:
	Press release Summary of scientific background Detailed scientific background

	Beyond the Crisis - New Challenges for Corporate Governance
	The Swedish Corporate Governance Board and the ECGI, in conjunction with the Swedish EU Presidency, arranged the 8th European Corporate Governance Conference in Stockholm, Sweden on 2-3 December 2009. The three main topics were: 'The Future of Corporate Governance Regulation in the EU?', 'Regulating Remuneration – The Way Ahead?' and 'Government in Corporate Governance'. See:
	Conference programme Conference report with presentations and speeches Delegates

	The New Role of Government in Corporate Governance
	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. See:
	Conference programme Video recordings and speaker presentations List of registered delegates Background the the TCGD series and previous TCGD conferences

	New European Corporate Governance Research Foundation
	The ECGI and the University of Luxembourg signed an agreement on 18 June 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, José Manuel Barroso. See:
	Press release in English outlining the details of the agreement and background material 'Convenience' translations of the press release in French and German Photographs of the agreement signing (and the afternoon conference q.v.)

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