Conference outline

The Global Corporate Governance Forum (GCGF) and the Asian Institute of Corporate Governance (AICG) at Korea University Business School call for papers to be presented at the 3rd International Conference on Corporate Governance in Emerging Markets to be held May 28-29, 2011 in Seoul, Korea. The conference will bring together researchers from around the world investigating the impact of corporate governance on firm performance and economic development, and the role of legal, economic and political institutions in shaping corporate governance systems in emerging markets. The conference will disseminate state of the art research on corporate governance in emerging markets, with the objective of supporting policy advice and practice development. As in past conferences - hosted by Sabanci University, November 2007, Istanbul, Turkey, and by Coppead Graduate Business School and the FGV Law School in July 2009, Sao Paulo, Brazil - papers on all aspects of corporate governance are welcomed. The conference series is an undertaking of EMCGN (http://www.gcgf.org/ifcext/cgf.nsf/Content/Research) chaired by Prof. Stijn Claessens of University of Amsterdam. The keynote speakers for the conference will be Professor Bernard Black of Northwestern University, and Professor Randall Morck of University of Alberta.