On April 6, 2023, presenter Kai Li gave the lecture “Corporate Culture and Future Directions” The lecture was moderated by Ankit Kalda. Kai’s slides can be found here. Below you will find the Q&A from the seminar:
On March 30, 2023, presenter Zhenyu Wang gave the lecture “CoCo Bonds: Are They Debt or Equity? Do They Help Financial Stability?” The lecture was moderated by Kristoph Kleiner. Zhenyu’s slides can be found here Below you will find the Q&A from the seminar:
On March 2, 2023, presenter Laura Starks gave the lecture “Climate Risk and Institutional Investors”. The seminar was moderated by Marco Becht. The Q&A from Laura’s lecture will be added below.
On February 9, 2023, presenter Mary Ellen Carter gave the lecture “Executive Compensation” The Q&A from Mary Ellen’s lecture is below.
On January 19, 2023, presenter Vivian Fang gave the lecture “Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, and Their Governance Implications” The Q&A from Vivian’s lecture is below.
On December 8, 2022, presenter Margarethe Wiersema gave the lecture “Corporate Governance in Turbulent Times” The Q&A from Margarethe’s lecture is below.
On October 6, 2022, presenter Don Langevoort gave the lecture “What Were They Thinking? State of Mind Puzzles in Insider Trading” Don’s paper can be found here: https://go.iu.edu/4BrD Below you will find the Q&A from the seminar:
On March 10, 2022, presenter Alon Brav gave the lecture “Governance by Persuasion: Hedge fund activism and marker-based shareholder influence”. The lecture was based on a review paper coauthored with Wei Jiang and Rongchen Li in which the authors provide an updated empirical analysis as well as a comprehensive survey of the academic finance research… Read more »
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 Nov. 3, London Business School Professor Alex Edmans gave the inaugural public lecture on corporate governance for the Institute for Corporate Governance (ICG) at Indiana University: “ESG: Do We Need It and Does It Work?” Indiana University Professor Phil Cochran wrote, “Edmans recognizes that in a positive-sum (or “pie-growing”) world the returns on many… Read more »
