NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2004

 

Corporate Finance Workshop

 

Denis Gromb and Antoinette Schoar, Organizers

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

July 12 and 13, 2004

 

PROGRAM

 

MONDAY, JULY 12:

 

 

 8:30 a.m.

Coffee and Pastries 

 

 

 9:00 a.m.

ARTURO BRIS and NING ZHU, Yale University

 

IVO WELCH, Yale University and NBER

 

The Costs of Bankruptcy:

 

Chapter 7 Cash Auctions vs. Chapter 11 Bargaining

 

 

 

Discussant: EDITH HOTCHKISS, Boston College

 

 

 9:50 a.m.

KENNETH AYOTTE and HAYONG YUN, Columbia University

 

Matching Bankruptcy Laws to Legal Environments

 

 

 

Discussant: MATTHIAS KAHL, University of North Carolina

 

 

10:40 a.m.

Break

 

 

11:00 a.m.

CRAIG O’NEIL BROWN and SERDAR DINC, University of Michigan

 

The Politics of Bank Failures: Evidence from Emerging Markets

 

 

 

Discussant: RAYMOND FISMAN, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

11:50 a.m.

Lunch

 

 

1:00 p.m.

LUIGI GUISO, University of Sassari

 

PAOLA SAPIENZA, Northwestern University

 

LUIGI ZINGALES, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Cultural Biases in Economic Exchange

 

 

 

Discussant: FRANKLIN ALLEN, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

 1:50 p.m.

RAGHURAM RAJAN, University of Chicago and NBER

 

JULIE WULF, University of Pennsylvania

 

Are Perks Purely Managerial Excess?

 

 

 

Discussant: WAYNE GUAY, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

 2:40 p.m.

Break

 

 

 3:00 p.m.

ROBERT MCDONALD, Northwestern University

 

Portfolio Choice and Corporate Financial Policy When There Are Tax-Intermediating Dealers

 

 

 

Discussant: BURTON HOLLIFIELD, Carnegie Mellon University

 

 

3:50 p.m.

OLIVER HART, Harvard University and NBER

 

JOHN MOORE, London School of Economics

 

Agreeing Now to Agree Later: Contracts that Rule Out but do not Rule In

 

 

 

Discussant: STEVEN KAPLAN, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

4:40 p.m.

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

TUESDAY, JULY 13:

 

 

 8:30 a.m.

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 a.m.

RAPHAEL AMIT, University of Pennsylvania

 

BELÉN VILLALONGA, Harvard University

 

How Do Family Ownership, Control, and Management Affect Firm Value?

 

 

 

Discussant: ANDREW METRICK, University of Pennsylvania and NBER 

 

 

9:50 a.m.

JULIAN FRANKS and STEFANO ROSSI, London Business School

 

COLIN MAYER, University of Oxford

 

Ownership: Evolution and Regulation

 

 

 

Discussant: RANDALL MORCK, University of Alberta and NBER 

 

 

10:40 a.m.

Break

 

 

11:00 a.m.

MATTHEW RHODES-KROPF, Columbia University

 

DAVID ROBINSON, Duke University

 

The Market for Mergers and the Boundaries of the Firm

 

 

 

Discussant: BOYAN JOVANOVIC, New York University and NBER 

 

 

11:50 a.m.

Lunch

 

 

1:00 p.m.

MIHIR DESAI, Harvard University and NBER

 

C. FRITZ FOLEY, University of Michigan

 

KRISTIN FORBES, MIT and NBER

 

Financial Constraints and Growth:

 

Multinational and Local Firm Responses to Currency Crises

 

 

 

Discussant: ROSS LEVINE, University of Minnesota and NBER

 

 

1:50 p.m.

ILAN GUEDJ, MIT

 

DAVID SCHARFSTEIN, Harvard University and NBER

 

Organizational Scope and Investment:

 

Evidence from the Drug Development Strategies of Biopharmaceutical Firms

 

 

 

Discussant: PIERRE AZOULAY, Columbia University and NBER 

 

 

2:40 p.m.

ATIF MIAN, University of Chicago

 

Distance Constraints: The Limits of Foreign Lending In Poor Economies

 

 

 

Discussant: PHILIP STRAHAN, Boston College and NBER

 

 

3:30 p.m.

Adjourn

 

 

6/10/04