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Allen & Overy to sponsor Law Working Paper prize |
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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 |
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ECGI's 2010 Dinner, General Assembly and Annual Lecture |
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These will take place in Luxembourg on 6-7 May. On Friday 7 May, the General Assembly and Annual Lecture will be held at the University of Luxembourg. ECGI Fellow, Professor Patrick Bolton, Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business, Columbia Business School, will give the Annual Lecture on the theme of Rewarding Illusory Alpha: Governance and the Crisis. The dinner will take place the night before at the offices of ArcelorMittal in Luxembourg. See: |
Programme of events in the public area of the website
Registration and further information for ECGI members (Password required)
Registration for the Annual Lecture for interested members of the general public |
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ECGI launches EU Presidency Conference repository |
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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: |
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European Company Law and Corporate Governance |
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Latest Research
Newsletter focuses on Government in Corporate Governance |
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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: |
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Top 10 downloads
in the Working Paper Series |
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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 |
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Corporate Governance
recognised in Nobel Prizes |
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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 |
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Beyond the Crisis - New Challenges for Corporate Governance |
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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 |
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The New Role of Government
in
Corporate Governance |
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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 |
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New
European Corporate Governance Research Foundation |
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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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