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, hosted its 2022 Annual Corporate Governance Symposium. The papers included in the Symposium collectively address new developments and critical issues within the area of ESG:

Congratulations to the winning papers:

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

There are two parts of the paper presentations.  Part 1 includes the papers presented during the Morning Session of the Symposium:

• 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)
  
• ESG Lending Sehoon Kim (Florida), Nitish Kumar* (Florida), Jongsub Lee (Seoul National), and Junho Oh (Hong Kong Polytechnic
  Discussant: Lubo Litov (Univeristy of Oklahoma)
  
  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)
  
  
• Greenhouse Gas Disclosure and Emissions Benchmarking Sorabh Tomar* (Southern Methodist)
  Discussant:  Matthew Gustafson (Penn State)
  
  

Part 2 includes the papers presented during the Afternoon Session of the Symposium:

• 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)
  
• 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)
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• Bargaining with Private Equity: Implications for Hospital Prices and Patient Welfare Tong Liu* (Wharton) 
  Discussant:  Alon Brav (Duke)

* Presenting author

For more information and to find links to the papers, go to https://www.weinberg.udel.edu/events/event/2022-Corporate-Governance-Symposium-Academic