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Professor Colin Mayer

Peter Moores Dean and Professor of Management Studies
Said Business School, University of Oxford
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 Colin Mayer, Peter Moores Dean and Professor of Management Studies, Said Business School, University of Oxford
- Founder member of the ECGI - - ECGI Board member - - ECGI Fellow (2002) -
Biography    
Colin Mayer is Peter Moores Dean of the Saïd Business School, Professor of Management Studies and Professorial Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

Mayer has been at the Saïd Business School since its inception in 1994 and was its first professor – the Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies. He has built an international reputation in the field of finance and has published widely on corporate finance, taxation and governance. He has served on the editorial boards of several leading academic journals and was instrumental in creating the largest and most prestigious networks of economics, law and finance academics in Europe at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)). He has held visiting fellowships at Stanford, MIT and Brussels University (ULB), where he was the first Leo Goldschmidt Visiting Professor of Corporate Governance. He is a Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute and an Honorary Fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford.

Mayer is Chairman of Oxera Holdings Ltd and was instrumental in building the firm into what is now one of the largest independent economics consultancies in the UK. He has consulted for numerous large firms and for governments, regulators and international agencies around the world.

Mayer researches in the fields of corporate finance, governance, regulation and taxation. He has worked on international comparisons of financial systems and corporate governance and their effects on the financing and control of corporations.

Research Interests
Corporate finance
Corporate governance
Corporate taxation
Regulation of financial institutions

ECGI Working Papers (Click title for more details)
Returns to Shareholder Activism: Evidence from a Clinical Study of the Hermes U.K. Focus Fund ECGI Finance Working Paper 138/2006 December 2006
The Origins of the German Corporation - Finance, Ownership and Control ECGI Finance Working Paper 110/2005 August 2005 This Working Paper is based upon a draft prepared for the Sloan Project on Business Institutions/Anton Philips Fund Conference on International Markets and Corporate Governance (Washington DC, October 2005) organised by Georgetown University Law Center and Tilburg University Faculty of Law.
Race to the Top or Bottom? Corporate Governance, Freedom of Reincorporation and Competition in Law ECGI Finance Working Paper 090/2005 July 2005
Where Do Firms Incorporate? Deregulation and the Cost of Entry ECGI Law Working Paper 070/2006 Revised August 2007 This Working Paper is based upon a draft prepared for the Sloan Project on Business Institutions/Anton Philips Fund Conference on International Markets and Corporate Governance (Washington DC, October 2005) organised by Georgetown University Law Center and Tilburg University Faculty of Law.
Spending Less Time with the Family: The Decline of Family Ownership in the UK ECGI Finance Working Paper 035/2004 January 2004
Ownership: Evolution and Regulation ECGI Finance Working Paper 009/2003 January 2003 (Revised December 2004) Winner of the 2004 ECGI Clinical Paper Competition Joint winner of the 2005 Standard Life Investments Finance Prize (Best paper in the Finance Working Paper series)
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