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 and NBER

Does Career Risk Deter Potential Entrepreneurs?
10:30 am
Peter Koudijs, New York University
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, Berkeley
Carolin Pflueger, University of Chicago and NBER
Michael Weber, Purdue University 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