Conference Organizers
Paolo Fulghieri and Anil Shivdasani
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kenan-Flagler Business School
Conference Venue
Teton Mountain Lodge
3385 West Village Drive, PO Box 564
Teton Village, WY 83025
www.tetonlodge.com
Preliminary Program
Thursday, January 22, 2009
6:00pm (Hotel Bar)
Welcome reception (cash bar)
Friday, January 23, 2009
7.30am – 8:30am (Teton Room)
Breakfast and Session 1
Karl Lins (U. of Utah)
Topic: What Drives Corporate Liquidity? An International Survey of Cash Holdings and Lines of Credit.
Co-authors: Henri Servaes (LBS, CEPR and ECGI) and Peter Tufano (Harvard and NBER)
5:00pm – 5:15 pm (Teton Room): Hors D’Oeuvre
5.15pm – 7:15 pm (Teton Room): Session 2
Session moderator – Anil Shivdasani (CITI, Global Markets Inc.)
Raghu Rajan (Chicago GSB)
Topic: The Internal Governance of Firms
Co-authors: Viral Acharya (LBS, NYU and CEPR) and Stewart Myers (MIT and NBER)
Anjan Thakor (WUSTL, Olin School of Business)
Topic: Disagreement Costs, Control and Corporate Finance
7:30pm Dinner at Mangy Moose
Saturday, January 24, 2009
7.30am – 8:30am (Teton Room)
Breakfast and Session 3
Max Croce and Riccardo Colacito (UNC Kenan-Flagler)
Topic: Risk Sharing for the Long Run. The Benefits from Financial Integration.
5:00 – 5:15 pm (Teton Room): Hors D’Oeuvre
5.15pm – 7:15 pm (Teton Room): Session 4
Session moderator – Debbie Lucas (Northwestern, Kellogg)
Marco Pagano (Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
Topic: Securitization, Transparency and Liquidity
Co-authors: Paolo Volpin (LBS and CEPR)
Nicolae Garleanu (Haas, Berkeley)
Topic: The Demographics of Innovation and Asset Returns
Co-authors: Leonid Kogan (MIT and NBER) and Stavros Panageas (Chicago GSB and NBER)
Format
Paper presentations: 30 min.
Group discussions: 20 min.