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Marco Da
Rin - New Research of the Month |
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Marco
Da Rin's research project "The Corporate Governance of
Venture-backed Firms" is the seventh featured Research
of the Month in the Research section on this website. This
area provides a forum for ECGI research members to publicise
their current corporate governance research projects. It also
acts as a gateway to all the research-related material on
this website. See: |
The new Research of the Month
feature
Listing of ECGI
Research members
Listing of Research
interests of ECGI Research members |
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Commission
sets up new expert advisory group |
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The
European Commission has set up an expert advisory group to
provide detailed technical advice on preparing corporate governance
and company law measures. Among the 20 non-governmental experts
are ECGI Fellow Theodore Baums, Francesco Chiappetta of ECGI
Institutional member Telecom Italia, Mario Stella-Richter
of ECGI Institutional member Assogestioni, and four ECGI Ordinary
members, Erich Kandler, Stilpon Nestor, Leonardo Peklar and
Patrick Zurstrassen. The technical work of this group will
be complementary to the more strategic role carried out by
the recently created European Corporate Governance Forum.
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Commission press release on the new advisory group
Details
of the European Corporate Governance Forum |
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Three new
ECGI Board members |
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Three
new Board members were elected at ECGI's General Assembly
to replace three Directors who have resigned owing to their
other commitments. André Lévy-Lang takes the
place of François Henrot as a non-academic member of
the ECGI Board. Professor Erik Berglöf and Professor
Klaus Hopt replace Professor Bengt Holmström and Professor
Richard Portes as academic members of the Board. See: |
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The new ECGI
Board
Biography of André
Lévy-Lang
Biography of Professor
Erik Berglöf
Biography of Professor
Klaus Hopt |
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Working Paper
prizes awarded |
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The
winners of the 2005 Working Paper prizes were announced at
ECGI's General Assembly held at SDA Bocconi on 9 March 2005. |
Winners
of the three prizes in 2005
Details
of the three prizes
Terms
of Reference for the prizes
Press announcement
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Five new
Fellows nominated |
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On
9 March at its General Assembly, the ECGI announced the appointment
of five new Fellows of the Institute drawn from academia in
Europe and North America. They augment the 21 inaugural Fellows
who were nominated in 2002 and an additional 6 nominated in
2003. See: |
Press release of the
announcement
Details of the
five new Fellows
List of all the
ECGI Fellows |
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ECGI's 2005
General Assembly and Panel Discussion |
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The
ECGI held its third General Assembly in Milan at SDA Bocconi
School of Management on Wednesday, 9 March. This was followed
by a panel discussion on the European Commission's Corporate
Governance Action Plan, followed by a reception and dinner,
kindly sponsored by SDA Bocconi, where the guest speaker was
Mario Monti, former EU Commissioner. See: |
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Programme for the General Assembly, panel discussion and
dinner (in the public
and the members'
area)
Agenda
for the General Assembly and accompanying documents
(in the members' area) |
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Conference
call for papers: The Ownership of the Modern Corporation |
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The
Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics (ACLE) at the University
of Amsterdam and The Journal of Financial Intermediation will
host a conference on the legal and economic determinants of
publicly-listed versus private ownership on September 16th-17th
in Amsterdam. The event will be co-organized with the Finance
Group at the University of Amsterdam and the European Corporate
Governance Institute (ECGI). See |
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for papers with deadline 15 March
2005 |
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2004 Clinical
Paper Competition winners |
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The
winners of the 2004 ECGI Clinical paper Competition were announced
at a ceremony on 9 December 2004 organised by the ECGI, the
Journal of Financial Economics (JFE) and the Center for Business
and Policy Studies (SNS) with financial support from the Jan
Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation. See: |
The
prize winners and their citations from the jury
Details
of the six papers
Competition Groundrules
and Administrative information
Background on the Competition's co-organisers and sponsor
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Draft guidelines
for governance of state-owned enterprises |
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The
OECD has issued draft guidelines for governance of state-owned
enterprises. Public comment is invited
before 28 January 2005. The draft is available through
the revised Codes section on this website. Over 150 codes
and principles from over 55 countries can now be accessed
individually. Alternatively, there is a new search facility
to view codes by country, by language or by year of publication.
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OECD draft guidelines
New codes
search facility
List of
all codes on this site
New additions
to the codes database since 1 December 2004 |
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Commission
creates European Forum |
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The
European Commission has set up a European Corporate Governance
Forum to examine best practices in Member States with a view
to enhancing the convergence of national corporate governance
codes and providing advice to the Commission. The Forum, comprising
fifteen senior experts whose experience and knowledge of corporate
governance are widely recognized at European level, includes
ECGI Chairman Antonio Borges, ECGI Founder and Fellow Eddy
Wymeersch and ECGI Member Jaap Winter. See: |
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Commission
announcement |
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ECGI aims
to stimulate debate on new EU recommendations |
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On
6 October, the EU Commission issued two important recommendations
concerning corporate governance. The first concerns the presence
and role of independent non-executive directors; the second
the level of remuneration of directors. The ECGI has devoted
a section on this website to each of these topics. With links
to proprietary ECGI research and other references to material,
these pages aim to generate research, stimulate debate and
disseminate best practice. See: |
New section on Independent directors
Section on Executive Remuneration
The ECGI List where you may
engage in discussion with other interested parties |
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Corporate
Governance Training Network project starts |
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A
four year project under the European Commission's Sixth Framework
Programme's Human Resources and Mobility (HRM) activity (The
Marie Curie Actions) starts officially on 1 October 2004.
Coordinated by the CEPR and the ECGI, the European Corporate
Governance Training Network (ECGTN) aims to reduce the European
research and training gap in corporate governance by bringing
together Europe's leading academics and institutions from
law, economics, finance, political economy and management
to train doctoral students in conducting world class research
in this area. See: |
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The
ECGTN website for further details
Details
of the Inaugural Conference and how to register
The
Marie Curie Actions site |
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22 new Research
Associates nominated |
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The
ECGI Board has approved the recommendation of the Research
Associates Committee, chaired by Professor Colin Mayer, to
appoint 22 new ECGI Research Associates. This brings the number
of Research Associates to 53 and the number of Research Members
(including ECGI Fellows) to 80. |
Details
of the new Research Associates
List of
all ECGI Research Associates
Research Associates
Committee and its remit
Research portal on this site |
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ECGI Transatlantic Corporate Governance Dialogue |
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This
major new initiative by the ECGI with the American Law Institute
(ALI) was launched with a full-day public conference in Brussels
on 12 July 2004. An ECGI Working Paper will be produced as
a result of the Conference and this will be published on this
site in due course. See: |
Background to the TCGD
Transcript of speeches
Conference Programme
List of those who attended the event |
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