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Stigler Center-CEPR Political Economy of Finance Conference 2024: Corporate Democracy

November 8-9, 2024

Gleacher Center - Chicago
  • November 08, 2024

About the Conference

One of the goals of the 1934 Security and Exchange Act was to promote shareholder democracy through the proxy ballot. Ninety years later, this goal is far from being achieved. The rise of index funds has concentrated an enormous amount of voting power in just a few hands. Is corporate democracy desirable? What are its costs and benefits? Is it feasible in the face of the enormous concentration of voting power and the rational apathy of voters? What can we learn from political democracy? Is corporate democracy a form of plutocracy? The conference invites papers on all these themes.     

The conference keynote will be delivered by Nobel Laureate Oliver Hart (Harvard University.)

This conference results from the merger of the conferences on Political Economy of Finance previously organized by PolEconFin and the Stigler Center, respectively. This revamped conference series will be held annually and will alternate between Europe and the United States.

The event, jointly hosted by the Stigler Center and The Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), aims to bring together researchers active at the intersections between Economics, Finance, Political Science, and Law.

This conference is in-person and invitation-only. You can submit your interest in attending the conference here.

Call for Papers

Papers on topics related to corporate democracy were accepted for consideration through June 30.

Authors will be notified in August.

DEADLINE: Submission is now closed. Papers must have been submitted through our Ex Ordo portal by June 30 (11:59pm CT Chicago time).

 

Conference Organizers

  • Thomas Lambert, Associate Professor of Finance, Erasmus University
  • Magdalena Rola-Janicka, Assistant Professor of Finance, Imperial College London; CEPR
  • Luigi Zingales, Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, University of Chicago; CEPR

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    Program Committee

  • Efraim Benmelech, Northwestern University
  • Emanuele Colonnelli, University of Chicago
  • Mara Faccio, Purdue University
  • Elisabeth Kempf, Harvard University
  • Hélène Landemore, Yale University
  • John Matsusaka, University of Southern California
  • Enrico Perotti, University of Amsterdam
  • Elizabeth Pollman, University of Pennsylvania
  • Karthik Ramanna, University of Oxford
  • Paola Sapienza, Northwestern University
  • Amit Seru, Stanford University
  • Paolo Volpin, Drexel University

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    Conference Venue:

    Gleacher Center
    450 Cityfront Plaza Dr, Chicago, IL 60611

    For more information, contact:

    Rachel Piontek, Senior Associate Director, Stigler Center
    rachel.piontek@chicagobooth.edu