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ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

The system of formal and informal rules by which a company is governed. Corporate governance shapes more than just a given’s company value – it dictates who controls the capital in the economy and so how this capital is being put the use. Corporate governance therefore affects and is affected by the degree of cronyism and rent-seeking in society.

ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

What Differentiates White-Collar Criminals From Other Executives? A Q&A With Eugene Soltes

Guy Rolnik
Video: Harvard Business School professor Eugene Soltes discusses his new book and explains why he considers white-collar crime to be a failure of intuition, not reasoning. What drives...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

The Power of Convictions

Luigi Zingales
Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom, winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Economics, created a new area of economic inquiry. They also had a profound...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Corporate Culture in Investment Banking: An Inside Look

ProMarket writers
A former investment banker examines the culture that incentivizes people in the industry to put their interests before their clients’. Part three in a...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

How Rich are the Parents of Your Money Manager, and What Does it Tell You About his Alpha?

Guy Rolnik
In the last few decades, numerous studies in financial literature have been devoted to the question of “alpha”—that is, the ability of money managers...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Why Firms’ Shareholders Condone Seemingly “Excessive” Executive Pay Packages, and What it Means For the Economy

Martin Schmalz
If the large mutual funds are out to improve governance, why do they condone, if not encourage, seemingly excessive and performance-insensitive compensation packages? A new...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Keynesian Winner-Lose-All Economics

Randall Morck
When calm, reasoned arguments, logical deductions, evidence and the like are not able to block Keynesian utility traps, ridicule might do the job. Professional sports, like...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

The Surprising Failure Of Food Labeling

Omri Ben-Shahar
If lawmakers want to improve the dietary choices of Americans, the first thing they need to recognize is that the problem is not information. (Note:...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Who Killed Corporate Reputation?

Roy Shapira
Regulation and reputation are not independent of each other. Regulation can substitute, crowd out, or even implement the power of reputational concerns. A better understanding...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Uncompromisingly Rajan

Luigi Zingales
Most people in power choose nominees without any outside option, because such people are willing to do anything to be reappointed. Raghuram Rajan is...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

ProMarket Interview: Alan Blinder on Over-Regulating Financial Markets

Guy Rolnik
In order to get optimal regulation in the financial world, says Alan Blinder, the former Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve, one should seek...
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