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Research Activity

Research Areas

Corporate Governance

  • Boards
  • Share ownership and control
  • Sarbanes-Oxley
  • Executive remuneration
  • Investor activism
  • Transparency and disclosure


Capital Markets

  • Financial exchange regulation
  • Takeovers
  • Cross-border transactions
  • Prospectuses and IPO’s


Enforcement

  • Public enforcement
  • Class actions
  • Derivative suits
  • Civil liability


Banking and Insurance Law and Policy

  • Regulation and supervision
  • Basel II
  • Insolvency II
  • Risk management
  • Internal controls

Research Projects

European Corporate Governance Network (ECGTN)

The Centre for Law and Finance – through its link with the “G.L.M. Casaregi” Department of the University of Genoa – conducts research projects for the European Corporate Governance Training Network (ECGTN). ECGTN is an initiative managed by the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and the Centre for Economic Policy and Research (CEPR), which brings together Europe's leading academics and institutions from law, economics, finance, political economy and management to train doctoral students in conducting world class research in the corporate governance area. The ECGTN project is funded by the European Commission under the Marie Curie Research Actions.
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The European Company Model Law Group

The European Company Model Law Group is a research programme created at the initiative of the Aarhus School of Business (Denmark) under the coordination of Professor Paul Krueger Andersen.

PRIN (Programmi di Ricerca Scientifica di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale)

PRIN is a national scientific research programme, conducted in collaboration with research representatives from other Italian research centres. Below are listed the programmes that have been conducted to date:

2000: The Corporate Governance Reform in Europe
Coordinators: Guido Ferrarini (University of Genoa), Marco Pagano (Federico II University of Naples)
2003: Executive Remuneration in Europe: comparative law and economic analysis
Coordinators: Guido Ferrarini (University of Genoa), Caprio Lorenzo (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano), Paolo Giudici (Free University of Bozen), Roberto Sacchi (University of Milano)
2005: Financial fraud and corporate governance reform: an European strategy?
Coordinators: Guido Ferrarini (University of Genoa), Caprio Lorenzo (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano), Paolo Giudici (Free University of Bozen), Roberto Sacchi (University of Milano)


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