Corporate Governance Conference
The Chookaszian Accounting Research Center at Chicago Booth, in partnership with the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago (BFI), brings together leading scholars for academic exchange on recent developments in corporate governance research and the role of governance in ESG. Understanding the role of corporate governance is important as companies grapple with balancing the desire to address ESG-related challenges and other, more traditional demands faced by firms.
Attendance for this conference is limited. Please contact bfi-events@uchicago.edu if you are interested in participating.
All times are listed in CST.
Agenda
Thursday, April 27, 2023
Breakfast and Registration
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Voluntary Investor Disclosure
Ryan McDonough, Rutgers University (Co-author)
Jordan Schoenfeld, University of Utah (Co-author)
Venky Nagar, University of Michigan (Presenter)
Charles McClure, University of Chicago (Discussant)
Governance Transparency and Firm Value
Akash Chattopadhyay, University of Toronto (Co-author)
Sa-Pyung Sean Shin, Singapore Management University (Co-author)
Charles C.Y. Wang, Harvard University (Presenter)
Maria Correia, London School of Economics (Discussant)
Morning Break
Diversity Washing
Andrew C. Baker, University of California, Berkeley (Co-author)
David Larcker, Stanford University (Co-author)
Charles McClure, University of Chicago (Co-author)
Durgesh Saraph, Jump Trading (Co-author)
Edward M. Watts, Yale University (Presenter)
John Core, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Discussant)
Lunch
Panel: Perspectives on ‘G’ in ESG
David Larcker, Stanford University
Steven Kaplan, University of Chicago
Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago
Afternoon Break
Retail Investors and ESG News
Qianqian Li, Stanford University (Co-author)
Edward M. Watts, Yale University (Co-author)
Christina Zhu, University of Pennsylvania (Presenter)
Trung Nguyen, Harvard University (Discussant)
Human Judgements of Executive Teams' Human Capital
Robert Bushman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Co-author)
John Donovan, University of Notre Dame (Co-author)
Yadav Gopalan, Indiana University (Co-author)
Salman Arif, University of Minnesota (Presenter)
John Kepler, Stanford University (Discussant)