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ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Should ESG-Driven Investors and Stakeholders Divest or Engage? A Stigler Center/Rustandy Center Panel Explores

ProMarket writers
Should investors and stakeholders who wish to influence companies to promote desirable social and environmental outcomes focus on actions like divestment and boycotts (exit),...
Commentary

Max Oversight Duties: How the Boeing Case Signifies a Shift in Corporate Law

Roy Shapira
Why did regulation, corporate governance, and fear of repetitional harm fail to prevent the Boeing 737 Max debacle from happening? A new paper explores...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

How the US Partisan Divide Shapes Global Capital Flows

Elisabeth Kempf
A new empirical paper explores how partisan perception affects capital allocation beyond national borders, showing that the global investment practices of US institutional investors...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

The Flaws and Limits of ESG-Based Compensation

Lucian Bebchuk
Companies increasingly use ESG metrics in their compensation packages for CEOs. A new empirical study suggests that this practice has questionable promise and produces...
Covid-19

How the Covid-19 Pandemic Put Corporate Stakeholder Promises to the Test

Lucian Bebchuk
Prior to the outbreak of Covid-19, corporate leaders pledged to look after all stakeholders, not just deliver value to shareholders. Did they live up...
Income Inequality

Chart of the Week: Minority Underrepresentation in Local US Politics

ProMarket writers
ProMarket's first-ever Chart of the Week comes from a new paper that studies the underrepresentation gap of ethnic minorities in local US politics. In a...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Elizabeth Holmes Is the Exception: More Women on Boards Lead to Less Corporate Wrongdoing

Ido Baum
The so-called “opportunity theory” suggests that women are statistically underrepresented in white-collar offenses because they are underrepresented in higher corporate echelons. A forthcoming paper...
Antitrust and Competition

Global vs. Local: What Drives Changes in Labor’s Share of Income

Amit Zac
A new working paper examines the relationship between competition policy and the decline in the labor share across the developed world and finds that...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Are American Firms Becoming Politically Polarized?

Vyacheslav Fos
A new paper examines political polarization among top executives in S&P 1500 firms, highlighting a robust trend toward political polarization in corporate America. This...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

How Much Can We Trust Index Funds on Climate Change?

Roberto Tallarita
According to a theory that is gaining support among academics and practitioners, we should expect index fund managers to undertake the role of “climate...
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