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.
Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, and Their Governance Implications, featuring Vivian Fang
Tag: Institute for Corporate Governance
Corporate Governance in Turbulent Times, featuring Margarethe Wiersema
On December 8, 2022, presenter Margarethe Wiersema gave the lecture “Corporate Governance in Turbulent Times” The Q&A from Margarethe’s lecture is below.
What Were They Thinking? State of Mind Puzzles in Insider Trading, featuring Don Langevoort
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:
Governance by Persuasion, featuring Alon Brav
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 »
Risk Perceptions, Board Networks, and Directors’ Monitoring, featuring Speaker, Michael Weisbach, and Discussant, Xiaoyun Yu
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 »
ESG: Do We Need It and Does It Work? featuring Professor Alex Edmans (London Business School and ECGI)
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 »