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