THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29:

6:30 PM Dinner

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Skyline A,B, & C

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, MA 02142

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30:

8:00 AM Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM Experimental Corporate Finance

ERNST FEHR, University of Zurich

SUSANNE KREMHELMER and KLAUS M. SCHMIDT, University of Munich

Fairness and the Optimal Allocation of Ownership Rights

Discussant: DAVID SCHARFSTEIN, Harvard University and NBER

9:15 AM FLORIAN EDERER and GUSTAVO MANSO, MIT

Incentives for Innovation: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment

Discussant: CHRISTIAN ZEHNDER, Harvard University

10:00 AM Break

10:20 AM Beliefs and Financial Decisions

LAURA BOTTAZZI, Bocconi University

MARCO DA RIN, Tilburg University

THOMAS HELLMANN, University of British Columbia

The Importance of Trust of Investment: Evidence from Venture Capital

Discussant: BRUCE CARLIN, UC, Los Angeles

11:05 AM RON KANIEL and DAVID T. ROBINSON, Duke University

CADE MASSEY, Yale University

The Importance of Being An Optimist: Evidence from Labor Market

Discussant: PAOLA SAPIENZA, Northwestern University and NBER

11:50 AM Lunch

CORPORATE FINANCE PROGRAM, PAGE 2:

12:50 PM Corporate Finance and Psychology

STEVEN KAPLAN and MORTEN SORENSEN, University of Chicago and NBER

MARK KLEBANOV, University of Chicago

Which CEO Characteristics and Abilities Matter?

Discussant: ROBERTO WEBER, Carnegie Mellon University

1:35 PM CAMELIA M. KUHNEN, Northwestern University

BRIAN KNUTSON, Stanford University

The Impact of Affect on Beliefs, Preferences and Financial Decisions

Discussant: COLIN CAMERER, Caltech

2:20 PM Break

The Future of Corporate Finance I

2:40 PM MALCOLM BAKER, Harvard University and NBER

2:55 PM ANTIONETTE SCHOAR, MIT and NBER

3:10 PM CHRISTOPHER HENNESSY, UC, Berkeley

3:25 PM The Future of Corporate Finance II

5:00 PM Adjourn

11/5/07