SI 2018 Corporate Finance

Antoinette Schoar and Amir Sufi, Organizers

July 9-10, 2018

Ballroom A

Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 9
Corporate Governance
10:20 am

Picking Friends Before Picking (Proxy) Fights: How Mutual Fund Voting Shapes Proxy Contests
Discussant: Dirk Jenter, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
11:10 am

Who’s Paying Attention? Measuring Common Ownership and Its Impact on Managerial Incentives
Discussant: Nancy L. Rose, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
12:00 pm
Lunch
Corporate Taxes
1:00 pm

Optimal Corporate Taxation Under Financial Frictions
Discussant: S. Vish Viswanathan, Duke University and NBER
1:50 pm

The Missing Profits of Nations
Discussant: C. Fritz Foley, Harvard University
2:40 pm
Break
Asymentric Information
3:10 pm

Asymmetric Information and Security Design under Knightian Uncertainty
Discussant: Lucy White, Boston University
4:00 pm

The Equilibrium Effects of Asymmetric Information: Evidence from Consumer Credit Markets
Discussant: Amir Kermani, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
4:50 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 10
8:15 am
Coffee and Pastries
International Corporate Finance
8:45am

"Brexit" and the Contraction of Syndicated Lending
Discussant: Victoria Ivashina, Harvard University and NBER
9:35 am

Corruption, Government Subsidies, and Innovation: Evidence from China
Discussant: Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago and NBER
10:25 am
Break
10:55 am

China's Anti-Corruption Campaign and Credit Reallocation from SOEs to Non-SOEs
Discussant: TBA
11:45 am
Lunch
Financial Intermediation
afternoon session is joint with Risks of Financial Institutions
12:45 pm

Judging Banks’ Risk by the Profits They Report
Discussant: David Sraer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
1:35 pm

Do Banks have an Edge?
Discussant: Itamar Drechsler, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
2:25 pm
Break
2:40 pm

Dressing up for the Regulators: Evidence from the Largest-Ever Supervisory Review
Discussant: Jeremy C. Stein, Harvard University and NBER
3:30 pm

The Anatomy of the Transmission of Macroprudential Policies
Discussant: Adam Guren, Boston University and NBER
4:20 pm
Adjourn
The Feldstein Lecture follows at 4:30 in the West Tower Ballroom