On January 6, 2022 presenter, Michael Weisbach, and Discussant, Xiaoyun Yu, gave the seminar “Risk Perceptions, Board Networks, and Directors’ Reporting.” Independent directors of corporate boards have monitoring and advising duties. One incentive for independent directors to monitor is regulatory penalties. However, it is challenging to pin down a causal effect of regulatory penalties on directors’… Read more »
On December 2, 2021, Columbia University Professor Wei Jiang gave a lecture on “Corporate Governance: Data and Technology.” Professor Jiang’s talk delves into the opportunities and challenges that data and technology have created for corporate governance. Data and technology change the nature of information and write new chapters for corporate governance. For example, the availability… Read more »