Corporate Law and Economics
Seminar on the economic considerations informing corporate laws and governance arrangements across key jurisdictions, covering shareholder-director relations, institutional investors, ESG, activist shareholders, and stakeholder capitalism.
This course is designed to provide an overview of the economic considerations which inform the corporate laws and governance arrangements of key jurisdictions around the world. Issues to be considered include the allocation of power between shareholders, directors, and management; executive compensation; minority shareholder protection; asset partitioning and creditor protection; the rise of institutional investors and investor stewardship; controlling shareholders, dual-class structures and state-owned enterprises, the growing ESG and corporate social responsibility agenda, shareholder activism, and stakeholder capitalism. References to Singapore’s corporate and securities laws will be made where relevant. No background in economics is required to take the course.
Download individual lecture slides and the syllabus below.
- LL4489V Corporate Law and Economics Syllabus.docxDOCX · 38 KB
- 2. The Economic Approach to Corporate Law I.pptxPPTX · 2.0 MB
- 3. The Economic Approach to Corporate Law II.pptxPPTX · 1.2 MB
- 4. Contractarian and Proprietary Approaches I.pptxPPTX · 12.0 MB
- 5. Contractarian and Proprietary Approaches II.pptxPPTX · 8.5 MB
- 6. Exit vs Voice.pptxPPTX · 3.4 MB
- 7. Institutional Investors and Stewardship.pptxPPTX · 6.2 MB
- 8. Ownership Structures.pptxPPTX · 5.4 MB
- 9. ESG and Stakeholderism I.pptxPPTX · 14.5 MB
- 10. ESG and Stakeholderism II.pptxPPTX · 7.1 MB
- 11. Board vs Shareholder Power.pptxPPTX · 15.8 MB
- 12. Minority Shareholder Protection.pptxPPTX · 3.8 MB