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CBR Seminar Series

Seminars will be announced here. If you would like to receive information about seminars in advance by email please contact Rachel Wagstaff.


Previous Events

23 November 2011, 17:30-19:00 p.m., Room G24, Faculty of Law, 10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ
The Precariat: the New Dangerous Class
Guy Standing
Professor of Economic Security, University of Bath

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22 September 2010, 12.30-2.00 p.m., Room G11, Faculty of Law, 10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ
Not all Competitors are Created Equal: The Heterogeneity of MNE Competitors and its Competitive Consequences
Lilach Nachum
Baruch College, City University of New York

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15 September 2010, 12.30-2.00 p.m., Room G11, Faculty of Law, 10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ
The Mechanisms of Voting Efficiency
Michael Schouten
Duisenberg School of Finance, University of Amsterdam, and Visiting Fellow, CBR

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31 August 2010, 4.00-5.30 p.m., Room KH107, Keynes House, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1QA
From Demsetz to Deng: Lessons from East Asia - and Elsewhere - on the Role of Property Rights and Economic Growth
Frank Upham
School of Law, New York University

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21 May 2007 2.15-4pm Judge Business School Room W2.01
India's Dual Legal System
Marc Galanter
John & Rylla Bosshard Professor Emeritus of Law and South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin- Madison; Centennial Professor, Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science


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30 November 2006 2-4pm Law Faculty Room B16
Understanding Law, Politics, and Power as Determinants of Corporate Governance: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)
Dr Gregory Jackson
Department of Management, King's College London

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23 November 2006 2-4pm Law Faculty Room B16
Uncertainty of Law and the Legal Process
Dr Giuseppe Dari-Mattiachi
Amsterdam Centre for Law & Economics, University of Amsterdam;
George Mason University School of Law.

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16 November 2006 2-4pm Law Faculty Room B16
Diversification Patterns in Family Business Firms
Professor Rafel Crespí-Cladera
Department of Business Economics, Universitat de Illes Balears (UIB);
Visiting Research Fellow, CBR

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2 November 2006 2-4pm Judge Business School Room W2.02
Firm Exit and Serial Entrepreneurship
Dr Erik Stam
Fellow, Advanced Institute of Management Research, University of Cambridge;
Department of Economic Geography, University of Utrecht;
Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena

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14 June 2006 12.30-2pm Law Faculty Room B16.
Doctrinal Path Dependence and Functional Convergence: The Case of Investment Securities
Dr Eva Micheler
Department of Law, London School of Economics

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1 June 2006, 12.30-2pm, Judge Business School, Castle Teaching Room.
Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Development
Susan Rose-Ackerman
Yale Law School

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26 May 2006 12.30-2pm Judge Business School Room W2.02
The Managerial Thesis Revised: Independent Directors and the CEO 'Directorate'
Allen Kaufman
University of New Hampshire

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22 March 2006 12.30-2pm Law Faculty Room G26
From legal systems to economic performance. A critical overview of numerical index methods
Thierry Kirat
University of Paris-Dauphine

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20 March 2006, 12.30-2pm Law Faculty Room G26
The transformation of the French business community 1960-2000. A sociological perspective
Pierre-Paul Zalio
IDHE-Cachan, Paris

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16 November 2005 12.45-2pm Law Faculty Room B16. Jointly organised with 3CL (the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law) at Cambridge University's Law Faculty.
A Multilevel Analysis of the Incorporation of Corporate Social Responsibility into Corporate Governance: the UK and US Compared
Cynthia Williams
University of Illinois College of Law

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9 November 2005 12.30-2pm Faculty of Law Moot Court Room. Jointly organised with 3CL (the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law) at Cambridge University's Law Faculty.
Dividends as a Substitute for Corporate Law: The Separation of Ownership and Control in the United Kingdom
Brian Cheffins
Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge

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19 October 2005 12.30-2pm Law Faculty. The seminar took place in connection with the project on Law, Finance and Development
Who writes the rules for hostile takeovers and why?
John Armour
Law Faculty and Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge

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9 March 2005 12.30-2pm Law Faculty. Jointly run by the Centre for European Legal Studies, the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law and the Centre for Business Research
Where is European Company Law Going?
Professor Paul Davies
London School of Economics

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13 July 2004 12.30-2pm
Assessment of Legal Regimes by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development: Experiences in Secured Transactions and Insolvency
Frederique Dahan and Mahesh Uttamchandi
Legal Department, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

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17 June 2004
Exploring the Patent Explosion
Professor Bronwyn Hall
University of California, Berkeley. (Prof. Hall is a Deloitte & Touche Distinguished Visitor at the Judge Institute of Management, a Visitor to the Centre for Business Research, and a Visiting Fellow at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.)

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28 May 2003 Robinson College As part of a series convened by the Office of Science & Technology (OST) and the Economic and Social Research Council a special seminar to consider the future for high-tech businesses took place entitled:
High-tech Business: Clusters, Constraints and Economic Development
The presentations can be downloaded here.

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