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Sir Thomas Gresham 1519–2019

Dr John Guy presents a special illustrated lecture to commemorate the 500th Anniversary of the birth of the College’s founder and benefactor Sir Thomas Gresham.

Mergers and Acquisitions: Do They Create or Destroy Value?

This talk will discuss the correct and incorrect motives for Mergers & Acquisitions, using both examples and large-scale evidence.

The Treaty of Versailles: A Hundred Years Later

Professor MacMillan, a specialist in British imperial history and the international history of the 19th and 20th centuries, will consider if the treaty led to the outbreak of the Second World War and whether the attempt to create a new world order was a failure.

Gresham's Exchange

Why did Gresham finance and build it? What did Londoners (and others) do there? And what does the Exchange tell us about Gresham's ambitions both for himself and for London?

Does Finance Benefit Society?

This talk will show that stock market trading may contribute to society even if does not lead to firms raising new capital.

The Stewardship Role of Investors

This talk will critically analyse the evidence on whether shareholder activism is beneficial for long-term value and suggest policies to promote the ‘good’ type of shareholder engagement.

Bubbles, Manias and Market Failures: The Unintended Consequences of Regulatory Responses

This lecture explores how regulators try to prevent what will hopefully be the ‘last’ bubble and suggests that the most effective regulatory frameworks were developed during the normal operation of markets, not in response to crises.

Sir Thomas Gresham, London, and Europe

London was crucially dependent on continental Europe for its economic resilience in the mid-sixteenth century, and Sir Thomas Gresham’s fortune piggy-backed off the special relationship with Antwerp.

Executive Pay: What's Right, What's Wrong, and What Could Be Fixed?

Evidence will be presented on which aspects of pay are working well and which are indeed dysfunctional, and on how pay should be reformed.

The Theatre of Dionysus

This lecture outlines the origins of Greek drama in this historic setting, its architectural development and some of the greatest masterpieces.

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