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Instructors: Prof. Dr. Christopher Koch
Event type:
Lecture/practice class
Displayed in timetable as:
Emp. Corp. Govern.
Hours per week:
4
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Requirements / organisational issues:
Course requirements
- This course is a specialized course on corporate governance research.
- Therefore, it is highly recommended that you have prior knowledge in corporate governance.
Course objectives
- Discuss topics of corporate governance in an international context.
- Learn economistric techniques for identifying the causal effects of corporate governance mechanisms.
- Evaluate international research on corporate governance.
Course grading
- The grading is based on the performance in a final written exam of 60 minutes. The exam questions will be in English. You may answer the questions in German or English.
- The exam will cover the content discussed in the lecture. Further information on the exam and a test exam will be provided in due course.
- In addition, you are required to hand in your evaluation of assigned research papers.
Contents:
Course content
- The first section discusses corporate governance in an international context
- The second section introduces modern econometric techniques for the empirical analysis of corporate governance mechanisms.
- The third section discusses research in corporate governance
Agenda
Section 1: Corporate Governance
(1) Mechanisms of Corporate Governance
(2) International Corporate Governance
Section 2: Empirical Methods
(3) Research Design
(4) Regression Analysis
(5) Treatment Effects
(6) Instrumental Variables
(7) Differences Estimator and Fixed Effects
Section 3: Empirical Corporate Governance Research
(8) Board Effectiveness
(9) Paper Discussion on Board Effectiveness
(10) Shareholder Activism
(11) Paper discussion on Shareholder Activism
Section 4: Conclusions
(12) Recap
Recommended reading list:
- Basic literature: Steen Thomsen & Martin Conyon: Corporate Governance: Mechanisms and Systems, McGrawHill 2012, ISBN-13: 9780077132590.
- Further readings will be provided at reader.uni-mainz.de.
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