Becht
Marco Becht
European corporate-governance scholar of ownership, control, and stewardship
Official Source Note
The European Corporate Governance Institute identifies Becht as Professor of Finance and Goldschmidt Chair Professor of Corporate Governance and Stewardship at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université libre de Bruxelles. It also records his role as an ECGI founder and Executive Director.
Becht is included because his research combines comparative governance institutions with close empirical study of ownership, control, institutional investors, and shareholder activism.
Relevance to the Archive
Becht adds a European empirical perspective on concentrated ownership, control transfers, institutional investors, and the conditions under which shareholder engagement changes corporate policy.
Representative Contributions
- Corporate Governance and Control (with Patrick Bolton and Ailsa Röell, 2003)
- Returns to Shareholder Activism (with Julian Franks, Colin Mayer, and Stefano Rossi, 2009)
Works Included Here
2003
Advanced
Corporate Governance and Control
Marco Becht, Patrick Bolton, and Ailsa Röell
Handbook of the Economics of Finance
2009
Advanced
Returns to Shareholder Activism: Evidence from a Clinical Study of the Hermes UK Focus Fund
Marco Becht, Julian Franks, Colin Mayer, and Stefano Rossi
Review of Financial Studies