University of Delaware Weinberg Center/ECGI Corporate Governance Symposium

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Friday, March 11, 2022, 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM @Virtual : 

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Co-sponsored with the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

In collaboration with the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance and the Department of Finance at the Lerner College of Business & Economics, at the University of Delaware, will host its 2022 Annual Corporate Governance Symposium.

Lunch Presentation: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET

Between the morning and afternoon paper presentation sessions, there will be a presentation by BlackRock on proxy voting choices.

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Papers:

The following are the eight papers that have been selected for presentation at the 2022 Symposium:

Morning Session: Watch Video

  • Is History Repeating Itself? The (Un)predictable Past of ESG Ratings Florian Berg (MIT), Kornelia Fabisik* (Frankfurt), and Zacharias Sautner (Frankfurt) 
    Discussant:  Youngjun Dragon Tang (University of Hong Kong)
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  • ESG Lending Sehoon Kim (Florida), Nitish Kumar* (Florida), Jongsub Lee (Seoul National), and Junho Oh (Hong Kong Polytechnic
    Discussant: Lubo Litov (Univeristy of Oklahoma)
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  • Climate Risk Disclosure and Institutional Investors Emirhan Ilhan* (Frankfurt), Philipp Krueger (Geneva), Zacharias Sautner (Frankfurt), and Laura T. Starks (Texas)
    Discussant:  Henri Servaes (London Business School)
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  • Greenhouse Gas Disclosure and Emissions Benchmarking Sorabh Tomar* (Southern Methodist)
    Discussant:  Matthew Gustafson (Penn State)
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Afternoon Session:

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  • Proxy Advisory Firms and Corporate Shareholder Engagement Aiyesha Dey (Harvard), Austin Starkweather (South Carolina), and Joshua T. White* (Vanderbilt)
    Discussant:  Nadya Malenko (University of Michigan)
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  • Paid Leave Pays Off: The Effects of Paid Family Leave on Firm Performance Benjamin Bennett (Tulane), Isil Erel (Ohio State), Léa Stern* (U. Washington), Zexi Wang (Lancaster)
    Discussant:  Daniel Ferreira (London School of Economics)
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  • Trading Ahead of Barbarians’ Arrival at the Gate: Insider Trading on Non-Inside Information Georgy Chabakauri (LSE), Vyacheslav Fos* (Boston College), Wei Jiang (Columbia)
    Discussant:  Umit Gurun (University of Texas at Dallas)
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  • Bargaining with Private Equity: Implications for Hospital Prices and Patient Welfare Tong Liu* (Wharton) 
    Discussant:  Alon Brav (Duke)
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* Presenting author

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 John L. Weinberg/IRRCi Research Paper Award competition, which seeks to highlight innovative research and includes an award of US$10,000:

  • Is History Repeating Itself? The (Un)predictable Past of ESG RatingsFlorian Berg (MIT), Kornelia Fabisik (Frankfurt), and Zacharias Sautner (Frankfurt)
  • Bargaining with Private Equity: Implications for Hospital Prices and Patient Welfare Tong Liu (Wharton)

Reference Materials for Luncheon Presentation

1.  Blackrock Investment Stewardship 

2. “BlackRock to Permit Some Clients to Vote,” Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, October 25, 2021 

3. “BlackRock’s Move to Expand Proxy Voting Choice Creates Unknowns,” Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, November 20, 2021 

4.  ISS Voting Policies 2022 

5. “ISS Launches Special Interest Proxy Advisory Guidelines,” by Baker Hostetler.  JDsupra, April 6, 2020

Call for Papers

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UDaily – John L. Weinberg/IRRCi Research Paper Awards