The inaugural seminar in the ECGI Spotlight Series took place on 13 July 2020. The series was introduced by the Chair of ECGI, Professor Lucrezia Reichlin and the Executive Director, Professor Marco Becht...
This event is co-sponsored by Stockholm School of Economics, the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and the European Corporate Governance Research Foundation (ECGRF). It brings together senior academics and thought-leaders in business to discuss a range of important topics.
The Swedish House of Finance (SHoF) and the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) are pleased to invite interested academics and others to attend a conference on Sustainable Finance on October 16-17, 2020.
Mr. Alexandre Dergatcheff is an investment professional with 20 years of experience across a number of internationally-recognised financial firms with a focus on Asset Allocation, Hedge Funds and Risk Management. Mr Dergatcheff commenced his career as a financial analyst in 1996 with Exane, a leading French stockbroker.
Bank executive incentives and compensation have been in the spotlight since the 2007-2009 financial crisis. Some claim that there was a corporate governance failure in bankers’ compensation—the perverse risk-taking incentives spawned by the way bankers were compensated were at least partly to...
Are US companies short-termist? Several recent papers identify actions that indicate short-termism, such as a reduction in long-term investment due to vesting equity and a reduction in R&D growth that allows firms to meet earnings forecasts. Hribar et al. (2006) and Almeida, Fos, and...
Nowadays, shareholder engagement is considered a key feature of corporate governance. We investigate institutional investors’ voice in the Netherlands, focusing on shareholder voting in particular. We built a new dataset of shareholder voting behaviour at general meetings of 29...
Climate change is one of the key economic challenges of our time. Economists and public policy scholars increasingly agree on the merits of carbon taxes and/or tradable permits to ensure adequate pricing of carbon emissions at the international level. However, given the current practical and...