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NYU Stern Five-Star Conference on Research in Finance

 December 1, 2006

 

 

This conference brings together finance researchers from several northeastern universities. We invite colleagues at all schools in the northeast, and others interested in current finance research, to a day of research presentations in finance. Faculty from each of the program participant schools will present one of the papers on the program.


Sponsored by CRA International and the NYU Salomon Center

 CRA International

 

Program Participants from
Columbia University | New York University | Princeton University

University of Pennsylvania | Yale University

 

 Date:

        Friday, December 1, 2006

 Location:

 

New York University
Stern School of Business
Kaufman Management Center, Room 2-60
44 West Fourth Street
New York, NY  10012

Directions to Stern:

 

http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/aboutstern/aboutstern.cfm?doc_id=1570

 Organizers:

 

Yakov Amihud, New York University
Kose John, New York University

 Registration:

 

To register for the conference and reserve your luncheon ticket, please send an email to salomon@stern.nyu.edu by November 24. Indicate your name, university/affiliation, and email address in your response.

 Special Request from Organizers: 

  Last year there was a large number of people who registered and did not show up. Please understand that this creates difficulties in organization and catering.  We would like to ask you to register only if you are reasonably sure of being able to attend. And, if after having registered you find out that you are unable to attend, please let Mary Jaffier know by November 23.

 

 PROGRAM                     

 

Friday, December 1

9:00    

Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:30   

Introduction
Matthew Richardson, Director, NYU Salomon Center

Opening Remarks
TBA

9:45

 

Chair: Jose A. Scheinkman, Princeton University
Suresh Sundaresan and Neng Wang, Columbia Univeresity
Dynamic Investment, Capital Structure, and Debt Overhang

Discussant: Marti Subrahmanyam, New York University   

10:45  

Refreshment Break

11:00   

Chair: Robert Engle, New York University
Joao F. Gomes , University of Pennsylvania, Leonid Kogan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
and
 Motohiro Yogo, University of Pennsylvania

Durability of Output and Expected Stock Returns
Discussant: James Choi, Yale University

12:00  

Refreshment Break

12:15 

 

Chair: Lawrence Glosten, Columbia University
Se-Jik Kim, Seoul National University and Hyun Song Shin, Princeton University
Industrial Structure and Corporate Finance
Discussant: Franklin Allen, University of Pennsylvania

1:15   

Luncheon

2:15  

Chair :TBA
K.J. Martijn Cremers, Yale University, Vinay B. Nair, University of Pennsylvania, and Urs Peyer, INSEAD
Weak Shareholder Rights: A Product Market Rationale
Discussant: Wei Jiang, Columbia University

3:15  

Refreshment Break

3:30  

Chair: David Yermack, New York University
Xavier Gabaix, Princeton and NBER and Augustin Landier, New York University
Why Has CEO Pay Increased So Much?”
Discussant: Wei Xiong, Princeton University

4:45      Reception