Corporate Governance, Regulation and Development

• Start date: 01 October 2007
• End date: 30 September 2009

The main aim of this seminar series is to bring together academics from different disciplines and policy-makers in order to present and discuss scientific papers that have as their focus the role of corporate governance in economic growth and development.

The main objectives were:

• to facilitate a multidisciplinary discussion of the impact and effects of corporate governance
• to give graduate students who are close to submission the opportunity to present their work in front of leading scholars in the field
• to disseminate the findings of the academic community to policy-makers and practitioners, and to facilitate discussions between user groups and academicians
• to ascertain the impact of investor protection laws on corporate governance and the driving forces behind the reform of investor protection laws
• to understand and delineate the impact of corporate governance on a firm's ability to attract capital
• to highlight the role of corporate governance in the development and reform of banking and financial systems in transition and developing economies.