Some 23% of FTSE 350 companies are not adequately reporting to shareholders on the activities of their audit committees, producing in effect little more than a summary of the committees’ terms of reference, research by the Local Authority Pension Fund

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Manifest-I presents a summary of recently released academic papers on international corporate governance and corporate social responsibility issues.

Reputational Sanctions in China’s Securities Market
Benjamin Liebman and Curtis Milhaupt, Columbia Law School

Public criticism of listed companies by the Shanghai …

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Large companies would be forced to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions to a common standard under proposals by Conservative Party think tank the Quality of Life Policy Group. The Group, chaired by former environment minister John Gummer, was formed …

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LCH.Clearnet, the clearing house, has issued formal requests to Deutsche Börse and Borsa Italiana for links allowing it to clear share trades executed on their platforms.

LCH.Clearnet said implementation of these links will allow users of those markets to …

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Manifest-I presents a summary of recently released academic papers on international corporate governance and corporate social responsibility issues.

Do IFRS/UK-GAAP reconciliations convey new information?
Edward Lee and Martin Walker, University of Manchester – Division of Accounting & Finance; and Hans

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Manifest-I presents a summary of recently released academic papers on international corporate governance and corporate social responsibility issues.

The Special Interest Race to CEO Primacy and the End of Corporate Governance Law
Steven Ramirez, professor of law, Loyola University of …

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Manifest-I presents a summary of recently released academic papers on international corporate governance and corporate social responsibility issues.

Law and the Market: The Impact of Enforcement

John Coffee, Columbia Law School. Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 304.

The …

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Manifest-I presents a summary of recently released academic papers on international corporate governance and corporate social responsibility issues.

Superstar CEOs

Ulrike Malmendier, University of California – Berkeley; and Geoffrey Tate, UCLA.

The firms of US chief executives who win high-profile …

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Most institutional investors believe there should be a stronger link between executive pay and performance at US companies, with 90% believing the current system has overpaid board members and 85% stating that it has damaged the image of corporate America, …

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A European Group of Auditors’ Oversight Bodies has been set up by the European Commission. The group will ensure effective coordination of new public oversight systems of statutory auditors and audit firms within the European Union and may also provide …

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