Program

Friday October 16

13.30 – 14.30  “The long-term governance of family businesses” – a conversation with Peter Wallenberg (Wallenberg Foundations), and Sarah Jack (SSE)

BREAK

14.40 – 15.25  Lucian A. Bebchuk (Harvard and ECGI) and Roberto Tallarita (Harvard), “The Illusory Promise of Stakeholder Governance”, discussant Colin Mayer (Oxford and ECGI)

15.30 – 16.15  Pat Akey (Toronto), and Ian Appel (Boston College), “Environmental Externalities of Activism”, discussant Jill Fisch (University of Pennsylvania and ECGI)

16.20 – 17.05  Aymeric Bellon (Wharton), “Does Private Equity Ownership Make Firms Cleaner? Evidence from the Sky”, discussant Karl Lins (University of Utah)

Saturday October 17

14.00 – 14.45  Anjan V. Thakor (Washington University St Louis and ECGI) and Robert E. Quinn (Michigan), “Higher Purpose, Incentives and Economic performance”, discussant Martin Oehmke (LSE)

14.50 – 15.35  Augustin Landier (HEC and ECGI) and Stefano Lovo (HEC), “ESG Investing: How to Optimize Impact”, discussant Ernst Maug (Mannheim)

15.40 – 16.25  Yaniv Grinstein (IDC Herzliya and Cornell and ECGI) and Yelena Larkin (York), “Corporate Environmental Policy and Product Market Competition”, discussant Pat Akey (Toronto)

16.30 – 17.15  Karl V. Lins (Utah), Lukas Roth (Alberta), Henri Servaes (LBS and ECGI) and Ane Tamayo (LSE), “Does Corporate Culture Add Value? Evidence from the Harvey Weinstein Scandal and the #MeToo Movement”, discussant Zacharias Sautner (Frankfurt)

Sunday October 18

14.00 – 14.45  Itzhak Ben-David, (Ohio State), Yeejin Jang (New South Wales), Stefanie Kleimeier (Maastricht and Stellenbosch) and Michael Viehs (Oxford), “Exporting Pollution: Where Do Multinational Firms Emit CO2?”, discussant Per Strömberg (SSE and ECGI)

14.50 – 15.35  Jean-François Bonnefon (Toulouse), Augustin Landier (HEC), Parinitha Sastry (MIT) and David Thesmar (MIT and ECGI), “Do Investors Care About Corporate Externalities? Experimental Evidence”, discussant Enrichetta Ravina (Northwestern)

15.40– 16.55  Cláudia Custódio (Imperial and ECGI), Miguel A. Ferreira (Nova), Emilia Garcia-Appendini (Zürich), Adrian Lam (Imperial), “The Economic Costs of Climate Change”

Nora M.C. Pankratz (UCLA) and Christoph M. Schiller (ASU), “Climate Change and Adaptation in Global Supply-Chain Networks”
Discussant John Hassler (Stockholm University)

17.00 – 17.40  Harrison Hong (Columbia), "Mitigating Disaster Risks in the Age of Climate Changes"