NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

CORPORATE FINANCE PROGRAM MEETING

Francisco Perez-Gonzalez, Organizer

 

March 20, 2009

 

University of Chicago

Gleacher Center, GSB (Downtown Chicago)

Room 308

450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive

Chicago, IL

 

PROGRAM

 

FRIDAY, MARCH 20:

 

8:00 am             Continental Breakfast

 

8:30 am             ELENA LOUTSKINA, University of Virginia

                        PHILIP STRAHAN, Boston College and NBER

                        Informed and Uninformed Investment in Housing:

                        The Downside of Diversification

 

                        Discussant:       AMIT SERU, University of Chicago

 

9:15 am             RAJKAMAL IYER, University of Amsterdam

                        ASIM IJAZ KHWAJA, Harvard University and NBER

                        ERZO LUTTMER, Harvard University and NBER

                        KELLY SHUE, Harvard University

                        Screening in Alternative Credit Markets: Can Individual Lenders’ Infer                                Borrower Credit-worthiness in Peer-to-Peer Lending?

 

                        Discussant:       ENRICHETTA RAVINA, Columbia University

 

10:00 am           Break

 

10:30 am           ADRIANO RAMPINI and S. VISWANATHAN, Duke University

                        Collateral and Capital Structure

 

                        Discussant:       FRANCESCA CORNELLI, London Business School

 

11:15 am           ALEX EDMANS, University of Pennsylvania

                        XAVIER GABAIX, New York University and NBER

                        TOMASZ SADZIK, New York University

                        YULIY SANNIKOV, Princeton University

                        Dynamic Incentive Accounts

 

                        Discussant:       ZHIGUO HE, University of Chicago

 

12:00 pm           Lunch- Room 621

 

1:30 pm             JOSHUA RAUH, University of Chicago and NBER

                        AMIR SUFI, University of Chicago

                        Capital Structure and Debt Structure

 

                        Discussant:       TONI WHITED, University of Rochester

 

2:15 pm             ARMEN HOVAKIMIAN, Baruch College

                        AYLA KAYHAN, Securities and Exchange Commission

                        SHERIDAN TITMAN, University of Texas, Austin and NBER

                        Crediting Rating Targets

 

                        Discussant:       MICHAEL ROBERTS, University of Pennsylvania

 

3:00 pm             Break

 

3:15 pm             REDOUANE ELKAMHI, University of Iowa

                        JAN ERICSSON, McGill University

                        CHRISTOPHER PARSONS, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

                        The Cost of Financial Distress and the Timing of Default

 

                        Discussant:       ARTHUR KORTEWEG, Stanford University

 

4:00 pm             ISIL EREL, Ohio State University

                        BRANDON JULIO, London Business School

                        MICHAEL WEISBACH, Ohio State University and NBER

                        Financial Market Conditions and the Structure of Securities

                        (Joint with Woojin Kim,)

 

                        Discussant:       GORDON PHILLIPS, University of Maryland and NBER

 

4:50 pm             Adjourn

 

6:00 pm             Joint Group Dinner

                        University of Chicago

                        Gleacher Center, Room 621

                        450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive

                        Chicago, IL

 

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