Gerard Hertig

ETH Zurich

Prof. em.

Haldeneggsteig 4

CH-8092 Zurich

Switzerland

http://lawecon.ethz.ch/group/professors/hertig.html

European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

Fellow

c/o the Royal Academies of Belgium

Rue Ducale 1 Hertogsstraat

1000 Brussels

Belgium

http://www.ecgi.org

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (24)

1.

Company and Takeover Law Reforms in Europe: Misguided Harmonization Efforts or Regulatory Competition?

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 12/2003
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 08 Sep 2003
Gerard Hertig and Joseph A. McCahery
ETH Zurich and Tilburg University - School of Law; European Banking Center (EBC)
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Company law, corporate governance, European integration, EU harmonization, private litigation, regulatory competition, takeovers, Takeover Bids Directive

On-Going Board Reforms: One-Size-Fits-All and Regulatory Capture

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 25/2005
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 02 Mar 2005
Gerard Hertig
ETH Zurich
Downloads 1,203 (35,925)
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Auditor, best practices, board, board discretion, board function, board reform, codes, compensation, corporate governance, director liability, independent director, institutional investor, regulation, regulatory capture, self regulation

On-Going Board Reforms: One Size Fits All and Regulatory Capture

Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 21, Issue 2, pp. 269-282, 2005
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
Gerard Hertig
ETH Zurich

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Using Basel Ii to Facilitate Access to Finance: The Disclosure of Internal Credit Ratings

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 31/2005
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 23 Apr 2005
Gerard Hertig
ETH Zurich
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Access to finance, Basel II, banking, capital requirements, disclosure, internal ratings, IRB approach, lenders, rating agencies

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Four Predictions About the Future of EU Securities Regulation

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 24 Mar 2003
Gerard Hertig and Ruben Lee
ETH Zurich and Oxford Finance Group
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Optional Rather than Mandatory EU Company Law: Framework and Specific Proposals

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 78/2007
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 19 Jan 2007
Gerard Hertig and Joseph A. McCahery
ETH Zurich and Tilburg University - School of Law; European Banking Center (EBC)
Downloads 758 (68,408)
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company law, default rule, harmonization, legal options, menu provisions, opt-in, opt-out, regulatory competition

Optional Rather than Mandatory EU Company Law: Framework and Specific Proposals

European Company and Financial Law Review, Vol. 3, No. 4, December 2006
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 06 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 21 Mar 2008
Gerard Hertig and Joseph A. McCahery
ETH Zurich and Tilburg University - School of Law; European Banking Center (EBC)
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Empowering the ECB to Supervise Banks: A Choice-Based Approach

TILEC Discussion Paper No. DP 2009-001, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 262/2009, Paolo Baffi Centre Research Paper No. 2009-58, Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics Working Paper No. 2009-01
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 14 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 09 May 2011
Gerard Hertig, Ruben Lee and Joseph A. McCahery
ETH Zurich, Oxford Finance Group and Tilburg University - School of Law; European Banking Center (EBC)
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Banking supervision, European Central Bank, European integration, prudential supervision, opt-in, supervisory colleges

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The Advisory and Monitoring Roles of the Board - Evidence from Disruptive Events

European Corporate Governance Institute – Finance Working Paper No. 673/2020
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 23 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 29 May 2020
Ettore Croci, Gerard Hertig, Layla Khoja and Luh Luh Lan
Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan, ETH Zurich, ETH Zurich, Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, Department of Management, Technology and Economics, Students and National University of Singapore (NUS) - Faculty of Law
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Disruptive events, corporate governance, board of directors

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The Governance of Financial Supervisors: Improving Responsiveness to Market Developments

Paolo Baffi Centre Research Paper No. 2010-82, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 171/2010
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 19 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 04 Feb 2011
Luca Enriques and Gerard Hertig
Bocconi University - Bocconi Law Department and ETH Zurich
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Supervisory Agency Decision-Making, Financial Supervision, Governance, Supervisory Responsiveness, Transparency

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A Legal Options Approach to EC Company Law

Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics Working Paper No. 2006-01
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 21 Feb 2006
Gerard Hertig and Joseph A. McCahery
ETH Zurich and Tilburg University - School of Law; European Banking Center (EBC)
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EC company law, legal options

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Governments as Investors of Last Resort, Credit Crisis Comparative Case Studies

Theoretical Inquiries in Law, 2012, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 187/2012
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 31 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 14 Mar 2012
Gerard Hertig
ETH Zurich
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Bank bail-out, bank governance, government ownership, state aid, resolution, restructuring

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Shadow Resolutions as a No-No in a Sound Banking Union

E. Faia, A. Hackethal, M. Haliassos and K. Langenbucher (eds.), Financial Regulation. A Transatlantic Perspective, Cambridge University Press, 150-166, 2015
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 01 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 29 Nov 2021
Luca Enriques and Gerard Hertig
Bocconi University - Bocconi Law Department and ETH Zurich
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Bank Resolution, Banking Union, Single Supervisory Mechanism, Single Resolution Mechanism, Shadow Resolution, National Competent Authorities, Supervisory Forbearance

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Decision-Making During the Crisis: Why Did the Treasury Let Commercial Banks Fail?

European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 281/2015
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 09 Feb 2015
Ettore Croci, Gerard Hertig and Eric Nowak
Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan, ETH Zurich and Swiss Finance Institute
Downloads 255 (247,402)
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Resolution, Bail-out, Commercial Bank, CPP, Financial crisis, Bankruptcy

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Capitalist Stakeholders: Shareholder Stewardship in Switzerland

Dan W. Puchniak & Dionysia Katelouzou (eds), Global Shareholder Stewardship, Cambridge University Press (Forthcoming).
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 09 Jul 2021
Daniel Daeniker and Gerard Hertig
affiliation not provided to SSRN and ETH Zurich
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Corporate Governance, Shareholders, Stewardship, Switzerland, Corporations,

14.

Use of AI by Financial Players: The Emerging Evidence

European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 623/2022
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 21 Jan 2022
Gerard Hertig
ETH Zurich
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compliance, financial supervision, investor protection, systemic risk, use of artificial intelligence.

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The Political Economy of AI-Driven Financial Supervision

European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 621/2022
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 21 Jan 2022
Gerard Hertig
ETH Zurich
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Artificial intelligence, compliance, courts, financial supervision, investor protection, systemic risk

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Smart Financial Contracts: An Overview

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 04 Aug 2022
Gerard Hertig
ETH Zurich
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Blockchains, smart contracts, financial transactions, retail banking

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Codetermination as a (Partial) Substitute for Mandatory Disclosure?

European Business Organization Law Review (EBOR), Vol. 7, 2006
Posted: 19 Feb 2007
Gerard Hertig
ETH Zurich

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Codetermination, creditor protection, mandatory disclosure

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Basel II and Fostering the Disclosure of Banks' Internal Credit Ratings

European Business Organization Law Review (EBOR), Vol. 7, 2006
Posted: 19 Feb 2007
Gerard Hertig
ETH Zurich

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access to finance, Basel II, banking, capital requirements, disclosure, information providers, internal ratings, IRB approach, Lenders, rating agencies

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Creditor Protection

R. Kraakman, P. Davies, H. Hansmann, G. Hertig, K. Hopt, H. Kanda, and E. Rock, THE ANATOMY OF CORPORATE LAW: A COMPARATIVE AND FUNCTIONAL APPROACH, Oxford University Press, pp. 71-99, 2004
Posted: 27 Jul 2004
Gerard Hertig and Hideki Kanda
ETH Zurich and University of Tokyo - Graduate School of Law and Politics

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Auditors, business judgment rule, creditors, director disqualification, fiduciary duties, group of companies, insolvency, legal capital, mandatory disclosure, shareholder liability

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Western Europe's Corporate Governance Dilemma

CORPORATIONS, CAPITAL MARKETS AND BUSINESS IN THE LAW (Liber Amicorum Richard M. Buxbaum), Theodor Baums, Klaus J. Hopt and Norbert Horn eds., Pp. 265-282, Kluwer Law International, 2000
Posted: 21 Nov 2000
Gerard Hertig
ETH Zurich

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Corporate Governance

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Regulatory Competition for EU Financial Services

Posted: 22 Jun 2000
Gerard Hertig
ETH Zurich

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Convergence of Substantive Rules and Convergence of Enforcement: Correlation and Tradeoffs

CONVERGENCE AND PERSISTENCE IN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, pp. 328-347, Jeffrey Gordon and Marc Roe, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2004
Posted: 04 Aug 1998 Last Revised: 22 Jan 2016
Gerard Hertig
ETH Zurich

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Corporate Governance in the United States as Seen from Europe

Columbia Business Law Review, Vol. 1998, No. 1
Posted: 31 Jul 1998
Gerard Hertig
ETH Zurich

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