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Thursday 9 March 2006
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
Sponsors:
ETH Zurich, European Corporate Governance Training Network, Nestlé, Review of Finance, Swiss Re, SWX Swiss Exchange, Wharton Financial Institutions Center

Oxford Union style debate*
“This House believes that company top executives should be paid like government ministers”
 * see a guide to Oxford Union debates and a brief history of the Union

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Introduction
Laura Poots, past President of the Oxford Union in the chair
   
For the motion
    
Against the motion
Professor Bruno S. Frey, Professor of Economics, University of Zurich
Peter Forstmoser, Chairman, Swiss Re
   
   
     
 
Floor debate
  
 
Floor debate
  
   
Second proposer
Second opposer
Professor Gérard Hertig, Professor of Law, ETH Zurich
Professor Reinier Kraakman, Ezra Ripley Thayer Professor of Law, Harvard University
Further debate
Further debate from the floor
Rebuttal
Rebuttal
Professor Bruno S. Frey, Professor of Economics, University of Zurich
Peter Forstmoser, Chairman, Swiss Re
Summing up & vote
Marco Becht, ECGI Executive Director
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