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Development in Corporate Governance |
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The
Centre for Corporate Governance at the London Business School
and the European Corporate Governance Institute are organising
a conference sponsored by the Economic and Social Research
Council on Monday, 3 September 2007. The conference will
analyse current trends in the corporate governance debate.
Attendance at this academic conference is restricted. The
registration deadline for eligible delegates is 5 August
2007. See: |
 Programme
Registration
and other details |
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Control
Enhancing Mechanisms in Corporate Governance |
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The
Centre for Economic and Business Research, the
Copenhagen Business School and the ECGI are organising a
free all-day conference in Copenhagen on 18 September 2007
to take stock of the issues of surrounding control enhancing
mechanisms and their economic impact at the European level
and in international comparison. The conference will use
the European Commission's recently published study (see
below) as the basis for discussion. See: |
Programme
for the conference
Background
information and online registration
Final
report on the proportionality principle in the European
Union |
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Research
newsletter focuses on Effective Boards |
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The
third edition of the ECGI Research Newsletter focuses
on the important topic of boards. Some of the themes of
the research covered in this newsletter are board structure
and the differences between the unitary and two tier models,
the dual role of boards as advisors and monitors, and
company and board performance in relation to board compensation,
gender diversity and the time commitment of independent
directors. |
Volume
3 Winter 2006: Effective Boards
Volume
2 Summer 2006: Controlling Shareholders
Volume
1 Spring 2006: Corporate Takeovers |
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Activist
Investors, Hedge Funds and Corporate Governance conference |
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Organised
by the University of Amsterdam and Vanderbilt University,
this conference will take place on 8-9 March 2007 at the
Hotel Grand, Amsterdam. It will examine the
economic and governance effects of private equity and hedge
fund strategies in Europe and the United States and there
will be a panel discussion on the role of hedge funds and
private equity in corporate governance by some of the leading
investors, lawyers and regulators in the field. See; |
Programme
and registration details
ECGI's topic
page on Shareholder Activism |
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Contractual
Corporate Governance symposium |
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The
University of Sheffield Management School in association
with the ECGI and the Journal of Corporate Finance will
hold a one-day symposium on
Friday 22 June 2007 on the important topic of contractual
corporate governance - the ways and means by which individual
companies can deviate from their national corporate governance
standards by increasing
(or reducing) the level of protection they offer to their
shareholders and other
stakeholders. |
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call for papers |
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ECGI
in winning consortium for EU study contract |
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In a consortium led by Institutional Shareholder Services
(ISS) and alongside Shearman & Sterling LLP, the ECGI
has won a contract to study the proportionality between ownership
and control in EU listed companies. This study is part of
the Commission’s efforts to base any policy initiatives it
might wish to take in this area on objective data. See: |
Background
to the European Commission's Tender and the winning consortium
members
The ECGI teams and their roles
Joint
press release announcing the contract win |
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Financial
Contracting: Theory and Evidence |
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A
conference under the auspices of the European Corporate
Governance Training Network and organized by the University
of Mannheim, the Journal of Financial Intermediation, the
European Corporate Governance Institute, the German National
Science Foundation, and the Center for Financial Studies
will take place at the University of Mannheim on 20-21 April
2007. See: |
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