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Past events


ECGI's 2006 General Assembly and Open meeting
Date

Thursday, 9 March 2006

Venue Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
Organisers ECGI
Programme The General Assembly was for ECGI members only. The open meeting, comprising the keynote speech from Professor René Stulz and the Oxford Union-style debate on the topic “This House believes that company top executives should be paid like government ministers”, was open to the public.
Details

Members may find more information about the General Assembly in the ECGI members' area
See the programme of the Open Meeting and a copy of Professor Stultz's presentation


Conference "Alternative Views of Corporate Governance"
Date Conference: Friday, 10 March 2006
Venue Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
Organisers ETH Zurich, European Corporate Governance Training Network, the Review of Finance, and the Wharton Financial Institutions Center
dETAILS See Programme and papers

Shareholder Activism in the United Kingdom
Date Thursday 9th February 2006
Venue The Royal College of Gynaecologists, Nuffield Hall, 27 Sussex Place, London, NW1 4RG
Organisers LBS Centre for Corporate Governance, the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance and the ECGI
Details See the programme and a short report on the research study

Transatlantic Corporate Governance Dialogue
Date Tuesday, 27 September 2005
Venue Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City
Organisers American Law Institute (ALI) and ECGI
Details Click here for programme. Transcripts will be available on this website in due course.

The Ownership of the Modern Corporation: Economic and Legal Perspectives on Private versus Publicly-listed Corporations
Date 16-17 September 2005

Venue Amsterdam
Organisers The Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics (ACLE) at the University of Amsterdam and The Journal of Financial Intermediation
Programme See programme

ECGI seession at the 9th European Financial Markets Convention and an Oxford Union style debate on the motion “This house believes that shareholders should NOT have the right to vote on corporate acquisitions”
Date 26-27 May 2005
Venue SAS Radisson Hotel, rue Fossés aux Loups, 1000 Brussels
Organisers Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE)
Details See video clips of the debate
See FESE website for other speeches and presentations.

ECGI's 2005 General Assembly and Panel Discussion "The European Commission's Corporate Governance Action Plan"
Date 9 March 2005
Venue Hosted by SDA Bocconi School of Management
Organisers ECGI
Programme Click here for details
Details See presentations and speeches in the Members' area

Inaugural Network Conference of the European Corporate Governance Training Network (ECGTN)
Date 28-29 January 2005
Venue Hosted by the Said Business School, Oxford
Organisers European Corporate Governance Training Network (ECGTN)
Programme Click here for details

Regulatory Competition and Subsidiarity in Corporate Governance in a Transatlantic Perspective
Date 12 July 2004
Venue Bibliotheque Solvay, Brussels
Organisers European Corporate Governance Institute and the American Law Institute (ALI)
Details See programme.

Family Firms and Corporate Governance
Date 20-22 May 2004
Venue Istanbul, Turkey
Organisers Corporate Governance Forum of Turkey and the Global Corporate Governance Forum in collaboration with the European Corporate Governance Institute
Details See conference website. A report will appear on this website in due course.

ECGI General Assembly and Annual Lecture 2004
date 10 March 2004
venue London Business School and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
details A detailed report can be found in the Members' area

2nd Humboldt-Forum on Corporate Governance
date 25-26 July 2003
organised by Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Humboldt-University Berlin
venue Humboldt-University Berlin
details See Conference Papers and Slides

Euro 50 Group Roundtable: Corporate Governance in the Financial Sector
date 9-10 July 2003
organised by Euro 50 Group
venue EIB, Luxembourg
details see programme and other details on Euro 50 Group website
presentations Download "Current Issues In European Corporate Governance" by Marco Becht, ECARES, Universite Libre de Bruxelles & ECGI or "Corporate Governance and European Financial Markets" by Professor Colin Mayer, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Book Launch of "The Anatomy of Corporate Law: A Comparative and Functional Approach"
date 30 June 2003
The London School of Economics
organised by London School of Economics and the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law at the University of Cambridge
venue London School of Economics
details See invitation and outline programme
booking Miss Felicity Eves, Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law, University of Cambridge
Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law at the University of Cambridge
book details "The Anatomy of Corporate Law: A Comparative and Functional Approach" by Reinier Kraakman, Paul Davies, Henry Hansmann, Gerard Hertig, Klaus J. Hopt, Hideki Kanda, and Edward B. Rock

ECGI session on Executive Remuneration at the European Financial Markets Convention
date 13 June 2003
The Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE)
organised by The Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE)
venue The Guildhall, London
details See full report on this website (access restricted to ECGI members)

A Modern Regulatory Framework for Company and Takeover Law in Europe
Centre for Law and Finance
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Max Planck Institute
Financial Law Institute
date 29-31 May 2003
organised by Professor Guido Ferrarini, Klaus Hopt, Jaap Winter and Eddy Wymeersch
venue Syracuse
details See programme and summary report

The Challenge of the 13th Takeover Directive in Europe
date 4 March 2003
CEPS (Centre for European Policy Studies)
organised by CEPS (Centre for European Policy Studies)
venue 1 Place du Congrès, 1000 Brussels
details see summary report on the seminar and the final report "The Economics of the Proposed European Takeover Directive" published by CEPS

ECGI General Assembly and panel discussion ‘The Future of Corporate Governance in Europe Post-Enron’
date 15 January 2003  
sponsored by Fortis  
venue at the offices of Fortis, 20 rue Royale, Brussels
details For Fellows, Research Associates and Members the ECGI. See detailed report in the Members' area of this website or a precis of this report in the public site.

ECGI session on ' The Future of Corporate Takeovers in Europe'
date 31 May 2002   The Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE)
event 6th European Financial Markets Convention, Brussels
organised by Federation of European Securities Exchanges
details See programme

Workshop on Corporate Governance and the "New Economy"
date 13 April 2002
organised by CEPR and ECGI in collaboration with ECARES
venue
Brussels
details
See programme
enquiries
Sarah McBride, Meetings Administrator, Centre for Economic Policy Research

ECGI session on 'Systems of Corporate Governance compared - Anglo-Saxon countries and continental Europe'
date 1 March 2002
event Corporate Governance in Germany - Perspectives from economic and financial research
organised by Deutsche Bank Research
venue Deutsche Bank AG, Unter den Linden 13-15, D-10117 Berlin
details

See programme on this site
or see Deutsche Bank Research site in German or in English

enquiries Dr. Klaus Gunter Deutsch, DB Research - Büro Berlin, Unter den Linden 13-15, D-10117 Berlin, Tel.: +49 30 3407-3682, Fax: +49 30 3407-3680. E-Mail: klaus.deutsch@db.com

The Launch of the ECGI
date 15 January 2002  
venue
Bibliothèque Solvay, Parc Léopold, Brussels
details
See report  

Financial Systems, Corporate Governance and Financial Distress (ECGN event in 2001)
details
See ACE Project

Corporate Governance and Economic Performance (ECGN event in 1998 )
details
See programme and programme papers

Strong Block Holders - Weak Minority Owners (ECGN event in 1997)
details
Report on the first European Corporate Governance Network Conference