When: Thursday, 17th September 2009
Where: Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Washington DC, USA
A free all-day conference organised by the European Corporate Governance Institute, the Brookings Institution and Columbia Law School.
The organisers are grateful for support from the Securities and Exchange Commission and the European Commission, and for the sponsorship of the 2009 Conference by the Columbia Law School through the F.F. Randolph Jr. Speakers Fund and the Stephen Friedman Fund in Business Law.
Programme
Some sessions (see below) qualified for Continuing Legal Education credits. Click here or menu item above for further details
By the middle of this decade, there seemed to be a consensus concerning the right role of government in business. First, government was neither to be the owner of businesses nor their financier. The European Union (EU) promoted the liberalisation of state-owned enterprise and adopted an extensive system to control government support of local companies. With the exception of its involvement in the financing of home ownership, the US had no history of deep state involvement in the ownership of industry. Second, the government would regulate lightly, relying on markets to work. Now at the close of the decade, the financial crisis has called both of these principles into question, certainly in application and perhaps in principle as well.
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