MONDAY, JULY 30
8:45 am	CG	MARCO BECHT, Free University of Brussels
		JULIAN FRANKS, London Business School
		COLIN MAYER, University of Oxford
		STEFANO ROSSI, Stockholm School of Economics
		Returns to Shareholder Activism: Evidence from a Clinical Study of the Herms U.K. Focus Fund
8:45 am	CG	CHRISTIAN LEUZ, University of Chicago
		KARL LINS, Utah University
		FRANCIS E. WARNOCK, University of Virginia and NBER
		Do Foreigners Invest Less in Poorly Governed Firms?
9:30 am	ITI	DENNIS NOVY, University of Warwick
		Is the Iceberg Melting Less Quickly? International Trade Costs after WWII
10:35 am	CG	STEVEN KAPLAN and JOSHUA RAUH, University of Chicago and NBER
		Street and Main Street: What Contributes to the Rise in the Highest Incomes?
10:35 am	CG	ENRICHETTA RAVINA, New York University
		PAOLA SAPIENZA, Northwestern University and NBER
		What Do Independent Directors Know? Evidence from Their Trading
		PAUL GOMPERS, Harvard University and NBER
11:00 am	ITI	JOY ISHII, Stanford University
		ANDREW METRICK, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
		Extreme Governance: An Analysis of Dual-Class Firms in the United States
1:00 pm	ITI	GUY MICHAELS, London School of Economics
		The Long Term Consequences of Regional Specialization
2:00 pm	CG	REENA AGGARWAL, Georgetown University
		ISIL EREL, Ohio State University
		RENE M. STULZ, Ohio State University and NBER
		ROHAN WILLIAMSON, Georgetown University
		Do U.S. Firms Have the Best Corporate Governance? A Cross-Country Examination of the Relation between Corporate Governance and Shareholder Wealth
2:30 pm	ITI	VALENTINA BRUNO, The World Bank
		STIJN CLAESSENS, University of Amsterdam
		Corporate Governance and Regulation: Can There Be Too Much of a Good Thing?
3:50 pm	CG	FRANKLIN ALLEN, University of Pennsylvania
		ELENA CARLETTI, Center for Financial Studies
		ROBERT MARQUEZ, Arizona State University
		Stakeholder Capitalism, Corporate Governance and Firm Value
3:50 pm	CG	LUCIAN BEBCHUK, Harvard University and NBER
		ZVIKA NEEMAN, Tel-Aviv University
		Investor Protection and Interest Group Politics
TUESDAY, JULY 31:
9:00 am	CF	OLIVER HART, Harvard University and NBER
		Hold-up, Asset Ownership, and Reference Points
9:30 am	ITI	LAURA ALFARO, Harvard University
		ANDREW CHARLTON, London School of Economics
		Intra-Industry FDI
9:50 am	CF	ALEX EDMANS, University of Pennsylvania
		XAVIER GABAIX, New York University and NBER
		AUGUSTIN LANDIER, New York University
		A Calibratable Model of Optimal CEO Incentives in Market Equilibrium
11:00 am	CF	VICTORIA IVASHINA, Harvard University
		ZHENG SUN, UC, Irvine
		Institutional Stock Trading on Loan Market Information
11:00 am	ITI	AMIT KHANDELWAL, Yale University
		The Long and Short of Quality Ladders
1:00 pm	CF	RAN DUCHIN, JOHN G. MATSUSAKA, and OGUZHAN OZBAS, University of Southern California
		When are Outside Directors Effective
1:00 pm	ITI	MARC MUENDLER, UC, San Diego
		Labor Re-Allocation in Response to Trade Reform
1:50 pm	CF	CRAIG DOIDGE, University of Texas
		G. ANDREW KAROLYI, Ohio State University
		RENE STULZ, Ohio State University and NBER
		Has New York Become Less Competitive in Global Markets?: Evaluating Foreign Listing Changes Over Time
2:30 pm	ITI	HALE UTAR, University of Colorado at Boulder
		Import Competition and Employment Dynamics
3:00 pm	CF	ANDREW METRICK, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
		AYAKO YASUDA, University of Pennsylvania
		The Economics of Private Equity Funds
3:50 pm	CF	ANTOINETTE SCHOAR, MIT nd NBER
		CEO Careers and Style
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1:
8:30 am	CF	STEWART MYERS, MIT and NBER
		ISIL EREL, Ohio State University
		JAMES A. READ, The Brattle Group
		Capital Allocation
9:20 am	CF	MARK CAREY and MICHAEL GORDY, Federal Reserve Board
		The Bank as Grim Reaper: Debt Composition and Recoveries of Defaulted Debt
9:30 am	ITI	COSTAS ARKOLAKIS, University of Minnesota
		Market Access Costs and the New Consumers Margin in International Trade
10:20 am	CF	GERARD HOBERG, University of Maryland
		GORDON PHILLIPS, University of Maryland and NBER
		Real and Financial Industry Booms and Busts
11:00 am	ITI	NATALIA RAMONDO, University of Texas at Austin
		Size, Geography and Multinational Production
11:20 am	CF	DAVID MATSA, Northwestern University
		Operating Under a Liquidity Crunch: The Impact of LBOs on Product Availability in the Supermarket Industry
1:00 pm	ITI	HOLGER BREINLICH, University of Essex
		Trade Liberalization and Industrial Restructuring through M&A
1:10 pm	CF	JOSH RAUH, University of Chicago and NBER
		The Effects of Financial Conditions on Capital Investment and Financing: Evidence from Variation in Pension Fund Asset Performance
2:00 pm	CF	JULES H. VAN BINSBERGEN, Duke University
		JOHN GRAHAM, Duke University and NBER
		JIE YANG, Duke University
		The Cost of Debt
2:30 pm	ITI	PAULA BUSTOS, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
		Multilateral Trade Liberalization, Exports and Technology Upgrading: Evidence on the Impact of Mercosur on Argentinian Firms
THURSDAY, AUGUST 2:
9:30 am	ITI	DOUGLAS IRWIN, Dartmouth College and NBER
		Trade Restrictiveness and Deadweight Losses from U.S. Tariffs, 1859-1961
11:00 am	ITI	GIOVANI PERI, UC, Davis and NBER
		CHAD SPARBER, Colgate University
		Comparative Advantage and Gains from Immigration