The Labex ReFi has launched a regular interdisciplinary seminar dedicated to Law and Finance issues, created and organized by professors Gerard Hertig (ETH Zurich), Christophe Moussu (ESCP Europe) and Alain Pietrancosta (Sorbonne Law School – University of Paris 1). Professors from prestigious universities are invited to discuss issues related to financial regulation from different perspectives, namely Law and Finance. This seminar has been designed for PhD candidates and Masters students to deepen their understanding of major concepts and challenges related to financial regulation.
Fall 2017 – Spring 2018
Venue ESCP Europe, 79, avenue de la Republique, 75011 Paris
(Fall 2017)
Date | Room | Speaker | Link to personal web page | Affiliated Institution of Guest Speaker | Topic/title of the paper | Link to Paper |
September 28, 2017 | Percepied | Luca Enriques | Bio & CV | Oxford University | Institutional Investors’ Voting Behavior: A Network Perspective | Paper |
November 16, 2017 | Percepied | Sophie Vermeille | Bio & CV | Droit & Croissance | Financial Restructurings | Paper |
Fall 2016 – Spring 2017
Venue ESCP Europe, 79, avenue de la Republique, 75011 Paris
(Spring 2017)
Date | Room | Speaker | Link to personal web page | Affiliated Institution of Guest Speaker | Topic/title of the paper | Link to Paper |
March 2, 2017 | Percepied | Jennifer Arlen | Bio & CV | NYU (law) | Corporate Criminal Liability: Theory and Evidence | Paper |
March 30, 2017 | Percepied | Clifford Holderness | CV & Bio | Boston College (finance) | The Allocation of Corporate Power between Shareholders and Managers | Paper |
May 18, 2017 | Percepied | Merritt Fox | Bio & CV | Columbia (law) | The New Stock Market: Sense and Nonsense | Paper |
(Fall 2016)
Date | Room | Speaker | Link to personal web page | Affiliated Institution of Guest Speaker | Topic/title of the paper | Link to Paper |
October 6, 2016 | Percepied | Anjan Thakor | CV & Bio | Washington University in St. Louis | Corporate Culture in Banking | Paper |
October 27, 2016 | Percepied | Hideki Kanda, Tokyo (law) | CV & Bio | Emeritus Professor, University of Tokyo and Professor, Gakushuin University, Japan, | « A Trust for Commercial Use in Japan: An Unexpected Winner in the Race among Organizational Forms » | Paper |
November 17, 2016 | Percepied | Simone Sepe | CV & Bio | Arizona and TSE | Commitment and Entrenchment in Corporate Governance | Paper |
December 15, 2016 | Percepied | Patrick Bolton | CV & Bio | Columbia (finance) | The End of the “Modern Corporation”: Deregulation and Ownership of Electric Utilities |
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Fall 2015 – Spring 2016 , Venue ESCP Europe, 79, avenue de la Republique, Paris (11eme)
Date | Room | Speaker | Link to personal web page | Affiliated Institution of Guest Speaker | Topic/title of the paper | Link to Paper |
May 26, 2016 | Raymond Martin | Jeffrey Gordon, Columbia (law) | Bio & CV | Columbia University | Benefit-Cost Analysis in Financial Regulation | Paper |
March 10, 2016 | Raymond Martin | Franklin Allen | Bio & CV | Imperial College and the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) | Financial Connections and Systemic Risk | Paper |
December 3, 2015 | Raymond Martin | Viral Acharya | Bio & CV | NYU Stern | Infrastructure Financing | Paper |
November 19, 2015 | Raymond Martin | Kathryn Judge | Bio & CV | Columbia University | Shadow Banking | Paper |
September 17, 2015 | Raymond Martin | John C. Coffee | Bio & CV | Columbia University | Hedge Fund Activism | Paper |
Venue ESCP Europe, 79, avenue de la Republique, Paris (11eme)
Date | Room | Speaker | Link to personal web page | Affiliated Institution of Guest Speaker | Topic/title of the paper | Link to Paper |
April 23, 2015 | Raymond Martin | Jill Fisch, (law) | Bio & CV | Pennsylvania | Why do Retail Investors Make Costly Mistakes ? | Paper |
February 5, 2015 | Raymond Martin | Jean-Charles Rochet | Bio & CV | University of Zurich | Rethinking the Regulatory Treatment of Securitization | Paper |
September 18, 2014 | Raymond Martin | Michael Klausner, (law) | Bio & CV | Stanford University | The Economic Structure of Business Transactions (M&A, Financing, etc) | Paper |
December 4, 2014 | Raymond Martin | Charles Calomiris, (finance) | Bio & CV | Columbia University | Decoding Banking Crises: What are they and What Causes them? | Paper |
Date | Room | Speaker | Link to personal web page | Affiliated Institution of Guest Speaker | Topic/title of the paper | Link to Paper |
Thursday, February 27, 2014 | Raymond Martin | Ettore Croci, (finance) | Bio & CV | Universita Cattolica Milano | Did the US Treasury Save Too Many or Too Few Banks? | Paper |
Thursday, February 13, 2014 | Raymond Martin | John Armour, (law) | Bio & CV | Oxford | The Origins of the Market for Corporate Control | Paper |
Thursday, December 5, 2013 | Raymond Martin | Jan-Pieter Krahnen, (finance) | Bio & CV | Frankfurt | Bank Resolution Regimes and Systemic Risk | Paper |
Thursday, September 19, 2013 | Raymond Martin | Marco Becht, (finance) | Bio & CV | ULB | The Returns to International Shareholder Activism | Paper |
Monday, May 14 , 2012 | Raymond Martin | Henry Hansmann, (law) | Bio & CV | Yale University | The Role of Law in the Organization of Enterprise | Paper |
Monday, January 16, 2012 | Raymond Martin | Julian Franks, (finance) | Bio & CV | London Business School | Ownership: Evolution and Regulation | Paper |
June 28, 2011 | Raymond Martin | John Coffee, (law) Discussant: Joseph McCahery(law) | Bio & CV | Columbia University | Contingent Capital as a Bail-In Alternative to Bail-Outs | Paper |
June 27, 2011 | Raymond Martin | John Coffee, (law) Discussant: Paolo Pamini (econ) | Bio & CV | Columbia University | Death, Taxes, and Systemic Risk: Planning for the Inevitable | Paper |
June 7, 2011 | Raymond Martin | Roberta Romano, (law) | Bio & CV | Yale University | For Diversity in the International Regulation of Financial Institutions | Paper |
June 6, 2011 | Raymond Martin | Roberta Romano, (law) | Bio & CV | Yale University | The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: A Critical Appraisal | Paper |