Corporate Finance Program Meeting

Shai Bernstein, C. Fritz Foley, and Antoinette Schoar, Organizers

April 7-8, 2016

University of Chiciago-Gleacher Center

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, April 8
8:00 am
Erik Stafford, Harvard University

Replicating Private Equity with Value Investing, Homemade Leverage, and Hold-to-Maturity Accounting
9:20 am
Joshua D. Gottlieb, University of Chicago and NBER
Richard Townsend, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Ting Xu, University of Toronto

Does Career Risk Deter Potential Entrepreneurs?
10:30 am
Peter Koudijs, University of Rotterdam
Laura Salisbury, York University and NBER

Bankruptcy and Investment: Evidence from Changes in Marital Property Laws in the U.S. South, 1840-1850
11:20 am
Marieke Bos, Stockholm School of Economics
Emily L. Breza, Harvard University and NBER
Andres Liberman, New York University

The Labor Market Effects of Credit Market Information
1:10 pm
Francesco D’Acunto, Georgetown University
Ryan Liu, University of California at Berkeley
Carolin Pflueger, University of Chicago and NBER
Michael Weber, University of Chicago and NBER

Flexible Prices and Leverage
2:00 pm
Mark L. Egan, Harvard University and NBER
Gregor Matvos, Northwestern University and NBER
Amit Seru, Stanford University and NBER

The Market For Financial Adviser Misconduct
3:10 pm
Rick Harbaugh, Indiana University
John W. Maxwell, Indiana University
Kelly Shue, Yale University and NBER

Consistent Good News and Inconsistent Bad News
4:00 pm
Pedro Bordalo, University of Oxford
Nicola Gennaioli, Bocconi University
Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University and NBER

Diagnostic Expectations and Credit Cycles