Topics: a. Mark to market accounting b. Opacity of banks’ assets c. The role of credit rating agencies d. Corporate governance, risk taking and disclosure e. Disclosure regulation f. Market discipline and its role during the banking crisis

Topics: - Financial reporting and business administration - Financial disclosure - Reporting on social and intellectual capital - Auditing and internal control system - Relations between governance and financial reporting - Information accounting system

We are inviting submissions for research papers on the governance role of financial institutions, and more generally on comparative corporate governance issues. The goal is a highly interactive workshop, involving a small group of top researchers in the fields of governance, corporate finance,...