Day 1: Friday 7 June
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| 08.15 | Registration |
| 08.45 | Welcome Conference Chair: Uwe Walz (Goethe University Frankfurt and CFS/ SAFE Frankfurt) Speaker: Wolfgang König, Director of the House of Finance (Goethe University Frankfurt) |
| Session 1: Session Chair: Elisabeth Bechtold (Zurich Insurance Group) |
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| 09.00 | Investor Ideology Speaker: Enrichetta Ravina (Kellogg School of Management) Discussant: Holger Spamann (Harvard Law School) |
| 10.00 | Corporate Culture and Liability Speaker: Jennifer Hill (The University of Sydney Law School, Australia) Discussant: Edward Rock (NYU Law School) |
| 11.00-11.30 | Coffee break |
| Session 2: Session Chair: Kon Sik Kim (Seoul National University) |
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| 11.30 | Index Funds and The Future of Corporate Governance: Theory, Evidence, And Policy Speaker: Lucian Bebchuk (Harvard Law School) Discussant: Pedro Matos (University of Virginia – Darden School of Business) |
| 12.30 | Panel Discussion I: Sustainable Finance Moderator: Marco Becht (Solvay Brussels School) Panelists: Christian Thimann (Athora Insurance Holding) Monica Mächler (Zurich Insurance Group) Carine Smith Ihenacho (Norges Bank Investment Management) |
| 13.30-14.30 | Lunch break |
| Session 3: Session Chair: Gen Goto (University of Tokyo) |
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| 14.30 | Active Owners and Firm Policies Speaker: Vicente Cuñat (The London School of Economics) Discussant: Oğuzhan Karakaş (Cambridge Judge Business School) |
| 15.30 | Who is the Boss? Family Control without Ownership in Publicly-traded Japanese Firms Speaker: Yupana Wiwattanakantang (National University of Singapore) Discussant: Rui Albuquerque (Boston College) |
| 16.30-17.00 | Coffee break |
| Session 4: Session Chair: Ron Gilson (Stanford Law School) |
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| 17.00 | Eastern Medicine for Western Finance: Rethinking Financial Regulation Speaker: Kathryn Judge (Columbia Law School) Discussant: Gérard Hertig (Singapore-ETH Centre) |
| 18:00 | Ends |
| 19.00 | Reception & Dinner |
Day 2: Saturday 8 June
| 08.30 | Arrival |
| 08.45 | Welcome: |
| Session 1: Session Chair: Qiao Liu (Peking University) |
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| 09.00 | Value of Politically Connected Independent Directors: Evidence from the Anti-Corruption Campaign in China Speaker: Chang Zhang (University of Warwick) Discussant: Luh Luh Lan (National University of Singapore) |
| 10.00 | Illuminating the Corporate Governance Black Hole: Contextualizing the Link to Performance Speaker: Merritt Fox (Columbia Law School) Discussant: Bo Becker (Stockholm School of Economics) |
| 11.00-11.30 | Coffee break |
| Session 2: Session Chair: Theodor Baums (Goethe Universität Frankfurt) |
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| 11.30 | Perils of Limiting the Coverage of Mandatory Pay Disclosure: The Korean Experience Speaker: Woochan Kim (Korea University Business School) Discussant: Tobias Tröger (Goethe University Frankfurt, Research Center SAFE) |
| 12.30 | Panel Discussion II: Banking Moderators: Uwe Walz (Goethe University Frankfurt and CFS/SAFE Frankfurt) Panelists: Ignazio Angeloni (SAFE, ECB (fmr)), Florian Drinhausen (Deutsche Bank) |
| 13.30-14.30 | Lunch break |
| Session Chair: Theodor Baums (Goethe Universität Frankfurt) | |
| 14.30 | Related Party Transactions in Commonwealth Asia: Complicating the Comparative Paradigm Speaker: Dan W. Puchniak (National University of Singapore) Discussant: Michael Klausner (Stanford Law School) |
| 15.30-16.00 | Coffee break |
| Session 3: Session Chair: Holger Spamann (Harvard Law School) |
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| 16.00 | The Limits of Limited Liability: Evidence from Industrial Pollution Speaker: Ian Appel (Boston College) Discussant: Oren Sussman (University of Oxford) |
| 17:00 | Why Are Firms with More Managerial Ownership Worth Less? Speaker: René Stulz (The Ohio State University) Discussant: Alon Brav (Duke University) |
| 18.00 | Closing Remarks & Reception Conference Chair: Uwe Walz (Goethe University Frankfurt and CFS/SAFE Frankfurt) GCGC Chair: Luh Luh Lan (National University of Singapore) |
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