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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2011

 

Corporate Finance Workshop

 

Malcolm Baker and Victoria Ivashina, Organizers

 

July 11 - 12, 2011

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

Monday, July 11:

  

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

ECONOMICS OF TAKEOVERS

 

9:30 am

Yael Hochberg, Northwestern University and NBER
Joshua Rauh, Northwestern University and NBER
Local Overweighting and Underperformance: Evidence from Limited Partner Private Equity Investments

Discussant: Lauren Cohen, Harvard University and NBER

 

10:20 am

Mike Burkart, Stockholm School of Economics
Denis Gromb, INSEAD
Holger Mueller, New York University and NBER 
Fausto Panunzi, Universita Bocconi
Legal Investor Protection and Takeovers

Discussant: Augustin Landier, Toulouse School of Economics

 

11:10 am

Ulrike Malmendier, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Marcus Opp, University of California at Berkeley
Farzad Saidi, New York University
Cash is King - Revaluation and the Medium of Exchange in Merger Bids

Discussant: Pavel Savor, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

  

 

FINANCE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

 

1:00 pm

Carola Frydman, Boston University and NBER
Eric Hilt, Wellesley College and NBER
Predators or Watchdogs? Bankers on Corporate Boards in the Early Twentieth Century

Discussant: Randall Morck, University of Alberta and NBER

 

1:50 pm

Konrad Burchardi, London School of Economics
Tarek Hassan, University of Chicago and NBER
The Economic Impact of Social Ties: Evidence from German Reunification

Discussant: Antoinette Schoar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

 

 

2:40 pm

Break

 

  

 

FINANCIAL REFORM: POLICY PROPOSALS

 

3:00 pm

Wilson Ervin, Credit Suisse
Bank Resolution and Too Big To Fail: Is Bail-In the Best Answer?

 

David Scharfstein, Harvard University and NBER
Adi Sunderam, Harvard University
The Economics of Housing Reform: Privatizing, Regulating, and Backstopping Mortgage Markets

Gary Gorton, Yale University and NBER
Andrew Metrick, Yale University and NBER
Regulating the Shadow Banking System

 

 

4:45 pm

Adjourn

 

 

6:00 pm

Group Dinner: Royal Sonesta Hotel – Grand Ballroom B

 

 

Tuesday, July 12:

 

  

 

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 

FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS AND INVESTMENT DECISIONS

 

 

8:30 am

Harrison Hong, Princeton University and NBER
Jeffrey Kubik, Syracuse University
Jose A. Scheinkman, Princeton University and NBER
Financial Constraints on Corporate Goodness

Discussant: Joshua Margolis, Harvard University

 

9:20 am

Gregor Matvos, University of Chicago and NBER
Amit Seru, University of Chicago and NBER
Resource Allocation Within Firms and Financial Market Dislocation: Evidence from Diversified Conglomerates

Discussant: Heitor Almeida, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NBER

 

 

10:10 am

Break

 

 

JOINT SESSIONS WITH RISKS OF FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

 

 

DERIVATIVES

 

10:30 am

Adriano Rampini, Duke University
Amir Sufi, University of Chicago and NBER
S. Viswanathan, Duke University
Dynamic Risk Management

Discussant: Stefan Nagel, Stanford University and NBER

 

11:20 am

Patrick Bolton, Columbia University and NBER
Martin Oehmke, Columbia University
Should Derivatives be Senior?

Discussant: Gustavo Manso, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

 

12:10 pm

Lunch

 

 

BANKING AND SYSTEMIC RISK

 

1:10 pm

Atif R. Mian, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Joao Santos, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Liquidity Risk And Maturity Management Over The Credit Cycle

Discussant: Michael Roberts, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

2:00 pm

Markus K. Brunnermeier, Princeton University and NBER
Darius Palia, Rutgers University
Gang Dong, Rutgers University
Bank's Non-Interest Income and Systemic Risk

Discussant: Thomas Philippon, New York University and NBER

 

 

2:50 pm

Break

 

 

3:10 pm

Oliver D. Hart, Harvard University and NBER
Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago and NBER
Inefficient Provision of Inside Money by Banks

Discussant: Douglas Gale, New York University

 

 

4:00 pm

Adjourn