August 28: Program
This conference is an opportunity for academics from all around the world to catch up and discuss importance of new findings in corporate governance.
Each paper has 45 minutes, which are divided as follows:
- 25 minutes for the presentation,
- 15 minutes for the discussant,
- 5 minutes for questions from the audience.
Preliminary
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Coffee and registration |
| 08:30-09:15 | "Divestment and Engagement: The Effect of Green Investors on Corporate Carbon Emissions" |
| Chong Shu, University of Utah | |
| Discussant: Per Strömberg, SHoF/SSE | |
| 09:15-10:00 | "On a Spending Spree: The Real Effects of Heuristics in Managerial Budgets" |
| Denis Sosyura, Arizona State University | |
| Discussant: Diogo Mendes, SHoF/SSE | |
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee break |
| 10:30-11:15 | "Delegated Blocks" |
| Amil Dasgupta, London School of Economics and ECGI | |
| Discussant: Alvin Chen, SHoF/SSE | |
| 11:15-12:00 | "Sustainable Organizations" |
| Jan Starmans, SHoF/SSE | |
| Discussant: Jens Josephson, Stockholm University | |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-14:15 | "Institutional Mobility in Global Capital Markets" |
| Roger Silvers, University of Utah and ECGI | |
| Discussant: Wei Jiang, Emory University and ECGI | |
| 14:15-15:00 | "The Benefits of Access: Evidence from Private Meetings with Portfolio Firms" |
| Marco Becht, Université Libre de Bruxelles and ECGI | |
| Discussant: Joel Shapiro, University of Oxford | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30-16:15 | "Delegated Voters" |
| Laura Starks, University of Texas Austin and ECGI | |
| Discussant: Mireia Giné, IESE Business School and ECGI | |
| 16:15-17:00 | "The Proxy Advice Industry and Common Owners’ Coordination" |
| Tove Forsbacka, Norwegian School of Economics | |
| Discussant: Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago and ECGI |