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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Corporate Finance Program Meeting

Raghuram Rajan, Organizer

October 29, 2010

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Parkview Room
40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Thursday, October 28, 2010

6:30 pm

Dinner
Bambara Restaurant
25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard (Across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
Cambridge, Ma

Friday, October 29, 2010

8:00 am

Continental Breakfast


8:30 am


Ran Duchin,
University of Michigan
Denis Sosyura,
University of Michigan
Tarp Investments: Financials and Politics




Bernadette Minton, Ohio State University
Jerome P. Taillard, Boston College
Rohan Williamson, Georgetown University
Do Independence and Financial Expertise of the Board Matter for Risk Taking and Performance?




Rene M. Stulz,
Ohio State University and NBER
Kathleen Kahle,
University of Arizona
Financial Policies and the Financial Crisis: Impaired Credit Channel or Diminished Demand for Capital

Discussant: David Scharfstein,
Harvard University and NBER

10:00 am

Break


10:20 am


Robin Greenwood, Harvard University and NBER
Samuel Hanson, Harvard University
Jeremy C. Stein, Harvard University and NBER
A Comparative-Advantage Approach to Government Debt Maturity

Discussant: Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton University and NBER


11:10 am


Bruce I. Carlin, UC,
Los Angeles and NBER
David T. Robinson,
Duke University and NBER
What Does Financial Literacy Training Teach Us?

Discussant: Viral
Acharya, New York University and NBER

12:00 noon

Lunch-Riverfront Room


1:00 pm


 Berk Sensoy, Lea H.Stern and Ji-Woong Chung, Ohio State University
 Michael Weisbach, Ohio State University and NBER
Pay for Performance from Future Fund Flows: The Case of Private Equity

Discussant: Andrew Metrick, Yale University and NBER


1:50 pm


Ashwini Agrawal, New York University
David Matsa, Northwestern University
Labor Unemployment Risk and Corporate Financing Decisions

Discussant: Gregor Matvos,
University of Chicago

2:40 pm

Break


3:10 pm


Mark Garmaise, UC,
Los Angeles
Gabriel Natividad, NYU Stern
Cheap Credit for Financial Institutions: The Case of Global Microfinance

Discussant: Raymond Fisman,
Columbia University and NBER


4:00 pm


Panel (joint with Behavioral Finance)
Behavioral Factors in the Financial Crisis
Royal Sonesta Hotel
Parkview Room
40 Edwin H. Land
Cambridge, MA

Moderator:        Tano Santos, Columbia University and NBER
Panelist:            David Laibson, Harvard University and NBER
                        Raghuram Rajan, University of Chicago and NBER
                        Robert Shiller, Yale University and NBER
                        Jeremy Stein, Harvard University and NBER

5:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

10/15/10