This event concerns a keynote lecture as part of the "Young Talents in Law & Finance Conference". This conference is held in person. Attendance is free of change (until full capacity is reached), registration required.

Read more and register for the conference here. 

Background material

This keynote lecture will be based on prof. Schmalz’s research on Common Ownership. Some useful background material can be found here:

• Anticompetitive Effects of Common Ownership |
• Common Ownership, Competition and Top Management Incentives | 
• Common-Ownership Concentration and Corporate Conduct | 
• Conceptual Breakthroughs on Common Ownership and Competition: A Framework For Evaluating Policy.

A review of the literature on the common ownership debate, can be found here: Recent Studies on Common Ownership, Firm Behavior, and Market Outcomes.

Practicalities

Register for live in person conference attendance via the link above.

About the Speaker

Martin Schmalz is a tenured Professor of Finance and Economics at Oxford Saïd. He is also a Research Affiliate with the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London) and CESIfo (Münich), and a Research Member with the European Corporate Governance Institute (Brussels). Martin previously served as the NBD Bancorp Assistant Professor in Business Administration, Harry H. Jones Research Scholar, and as an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business and a Faculty Affiliate of the Center on Finance, Law,and Policy at the University of Michigan. Martin has published papers on entrepreneurship, corporate finance and governance, behavioural finance and asset pricing and various studies of the asset management industry. His research on how the ownership structure of firms affects firm behaviour and market outcomes has affected policy-making and antitrust enforcement worldwide.

About ACLE

The Amsterdam Center for Law and Economics (ACLE) is a joint initiative of the Faculty of Economics and Business and the Faculty of Law at the University of Amsterdam. The objective of the ACLE is to promote high-quality interdisciplinary research at the intersection between law and economics.