Student guide Facoltà di Economia A.A. 2008/09

Listed stock companies are responsible for a large share of wealth produced globally. Their corporate governance system is therefore one of the paramount concerns the society needs to address properly to ensure economic growth and prosperity. An effective corporate governance system is crucial to preserve investors’ confidence and foster productive investments and economic growth. Many key issues should be tackled and solved in order to ensure this coveted effectiveness: how to ensure investors’ protection against the risk of managerial expropriation; how to prevent minority shareholder oppression by large shareholders; how to design wealth enhancing managerial incentive schemes; how to foster the development of a market for corporate control and so on.

 

Aim of the course is to provide students with a critical knowledge to understand and deal effectively with these issues. Reference will be made mostly to the Italian regulatory setting as designed by laws, stock exchange norms, CONSOB rules and self regulation.

 

The course will be run under a workshop format requiring active students involvement. 

For students attending classes grades will be based on class participation and a final written exam. All other students should pass an oral examination.

For students attending classes a reading list will be made available at the beginning of the course. All other students are responsible for the whole content of the following publications (all but the first are downloadable from the website):

Kraakman R. et al., 2004, The anatomy of corporate law, Oxford University Press

OECD, 2004, Principles of corporate governance

Borsa Italiana, Corporate governance code (Codice di autodisciplina) 2006

Calpers, Principle of accountable corporate governance