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NINTH ANNUAL NYU/PENN CONFERENCE ON LAW & FINANCE
Date:
February 8th and 9th, 2013
Location:
New York University
Stern School of Business
Kaufman Management Center, Room 1-100
44 West Fourth Street
New York, NY 10012
Directions to Stern:
Click here.
Organizers:
William Allen, New York University
Yakov Amihud, New York University
Jill Fisch, University of Pennsylvania
Itay Goldstein, University of Pennsylvania
Registration:
This event is by invitation. For more information email hjenning@stern.nyu.edu.
Program:
Friday, February 8, 2013
9:30am
Registration and Breakfast
10:00am
Welcoming Remarks
10:15 - 11:15am
Competition for Managers, Corporate Governance and Incentive Compensation (Final Version for Conference)
Viral Acharya, New York University Stern School of Business, CEPR, NBER
Marc Gabarro, Erasmus University
Paolo Volpin, LBS, CEBR
Commentator: James Spindler, The University of Texas at Austin School of Law
Moderator: William T. Allen, New York University School of Law and Stern School of Business
15 minute break
11:30 - 12:30am
Concentrated Ownership Revisited: Idiosyncratic Value and Agency Costs (Final Version for Conference)
Zohar Goshen, Columbia Law School
Assaf Hamdani, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Commentator: Alex Edmans, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Moderator: Itay Goldstein, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
12:30 - 1:30pm
Lunch
1:30 - 2:30pm
Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance in the US: Perception, Facts and Challenges (Final Version for Conference)
Steven N. Kaplan, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Commentator: Holger Spamann, Harvard Law School
Moderator: Bill Bratton, University of Pennsylvania Law School
2:30 - 3:30pm
How Do Retail Investors Choose Funds? An Experiment (Final Version for Conference)
Jill Fisch, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Tess Wilkinson-Ryan, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Commentator: Wei Jiang, Columbia Business School
Moderator: Geoffrey Miller, New York University School of Law
15 minute break
3:45 - 4:45pm
The Disciplinary Effects of Proxy Contests (Final Version for Conference)
Vyacheslav Fos, College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Commentator: Robert Thompson, Georgetown University Law Center
Moderator: Marcel Kahan, New York University School of Law
5:00 - 6:00pm Cocktails
6:00 - 8:00pm - Event Dinner
Saturday February 9, 2013
8:30am Registration and Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00am
Secured Credit Externalities (Final Version for Conference)
Barry Adler, NYU School of Law
Vedran Capkun, HEC Paris
Commentator: Mark Jenkins, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Moderator: Ryan Bubb, New York University School of Law
10:00 - 11:00am
Soft Shareholder Activism (Final Version for Conference)
Doron Levit, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Commentator: Frank Partnoy, University of San Diego School of Law
Moderator: Michael L. Wachter, University of Pennsylvania Law School
15 minute break
11:15 - 12:15pm
Virtual Ownership and Managerial Distance: The Governance of Industrial Foundations (Final Version for Conference)
Henry Hansmann, Yale Law School
Steen Thomsen, Copenhagen Business School
Commentator: Yaniv Grinstein, Cornell University, Johnson Graduate School of Management
Moderator: Yakov Amihud, New York University Stern School of Business
12:15 - 1:30pm
Lunch