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The ECGI Annual Lecture

Rewarding Illusory Alpha: Governance and the Crisis

11.00 - 13.00, Friday 7 May 2010


The ECGI Annual Lecture which takes place each year following the Institute's General Assembly, will this year take place in the Amphitheater BS 0.03, Building of Sciences, Campus Limpertsberg, University of Luxembourg. It is open to ECGI members and interested members of the public.  Registration is mandatory.

Lecture programme | Photographs | Video recording

Dinner and Presentation of the 2010 ECGI Working Paper Series Prizes
(open to ECGI members and invited guests)

Thursday 6 May 2010
19.30 Drinks and Dinner at ArcelorMittal, 19, avenue de la Liberté, Luxembourg
  Over dinner, the winners of the 2010 Standard Life Finance Working Paper prize and the 2010 Allen & Overy Law Working Paper prize will be announced by the series editors, Professor Patrick Bolton (Finance) and Professor Eilis Ferran (Law).  The prizes will be presented by representatives from the two sponsor organisations.

Annual General Meeting of the ECGI
University of Luxembourg

(for ECGI members only)

Friday 7 May 2010  
08.15 - 09.00 Registration and Coffee  
09.00 - 10.45

Chair
Antonio Borges
ECGI Chairman

The Agenda and accompanying papers will be available in the Members' area

Antonio Borges, ECGI Chairman
10.45 - 11.00

Break

 

Annual Lecture
University of Luxembourg

(open to ECGI members and interested members of the general public)

11.00 - 13.00

Rewarding Illusory Alpha: Governance and the Crisis

Professor Patrick Bolton, Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business, Columbia Business School and ECGI Fellow
  The lecture will focus on executive pay practices and the implications for corporate risk-taking, as well as on the role of the Board of Directors in risk-management and crisis prevention
 

Professor Patrick Bolton
Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business
Columbia Business School and ECGI Fellow

  Panel
Professor Franklin Allen

Nippon Life Professor of Finance and Economics
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Professor Franklin Allen, Nippon Life Professor of Finance and Economics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Professor Theodor Baums
Director of the Institute for Law and Finance
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main

rofessor Theodor Baums
  Q&A
(from the floor)
  Panel moderator and summing up
Professor Eilis Ferran
Professor of Company and Securities Law
University of Cambridge Law Faculty and Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law (3CL)
Professor Eilis Ferran