## Past Law & Finance Seminars Past Speakers May 3rd, 2012 **Dirk Hackbarth** Associate Professor of Finance, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Distress Risk, Stock Returns, and the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform Act" March 22, 2012 **Stoyan Stoyanov** NYU Stern School of Business "Class Action Security Lawsuits and Dividend Policy" February 16, 2012 **Erin Smith** NYU Stern School of Business "Over-Voting" March 24, 2011 **Kenneth Ahern** Michigan Ross School of Business "Who Writes the News? Corporate Press Releases During Merger Negotiations" April 21, 2011 **Luigi Zingales** Chicago Booth School of Business "Inefficient Provision of Inside Money by Banks" with Oliver Hart of Harvard University & NBER April 28, 2011 **S. Abraham Ravid** Rutgers Business School "Street Contingency without Moral Hazard -- A Theory of Intellectual Property Contracts and Evidence from Screenplay Sales" with Milton Harris of University of Chicago and Suman Basuroy of University of Oklahoma February 25, 2010 **Avri Ravid** Rutgers Business School Newark and New Brunswick "Conflicts in Bankruptcy and the Sequence of Debt Issues" March 4, 2010 **John Coates** Harvard Law School "The Powerful and Pervasive Effects of Ownership on M&A" April 15, 2010 **René M. Stulz** Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University "The Credit Crisis Around the Globe: Why Did Some Banks Perform Better?" April 22, 2010 **Vikrant Vig** London Business School "Securitization and Distressed Loan Renegotiation: Evidence from the Subprime Mortgage Crisis" March 5, 2009 **Viral Acharya** New York University "Corporate Governance Externalities" April 23, 2009 **Julian Franks** London Business School "The Life Cycle of Family Ownership: A Comparative Study of France, Germany, Italy and the UK" February 21, 2008 **David Yermack** NYU Stern School of Business "Deduction Ad Absurdum: CEOs Donating Their Own Stock to Their Own Family Foundations" March 27, 2008 **Vikrant Vig** London Business School "Did Securitization Lead to Lax Screening? Evidence From Subprime Loans 2001-2006" April 10, 2008 **Henry Hu** University of Texas Law School "Equity and Debt Decoupling and Empty Voting II: Importance and Extensions" February 15, 2007 **Efraim Benmelech** Harvard University "Liquidation Values and the Credibility of Financial Contract Renegotiation: Evidence from U.S. Airlines" March 22, 2007 **Amy Dittmar** University of Michigan "To be or not to be (public)" April 12, 2007 **David Thesmar** ENSAE-CREST and CEPR "Politically Connected CEOs and Corporate Outcomes: Evidence from France" April 19, 2007 **Sanjai Bhagat** University of Colorado "Corporate Governance and Firm Performance" February 16, 2006 **Stephen Choi Marcel Kahan** New York University "The Market Penalty for Mutual Fund Scandals" March 9, 2006 **Darius Palia** Rutgers Business School "Does Better Corporate Governance 'Cause' Better Firm Performance?" March 30, 2006 **Jonathan Karpoff** University of Washington Business School "The Cost to Firms of Cooking the Books" February 24, 2005 **ULRIKE MALMENDIER** Stanford University "Superstar CEOs" March 10, 2005 **MARK GARMAISE** UCLA Anderson School of Management "Corruption, Governance, and the Cost of Capital" April 14, 2005 **ALAN SCHWARZ** Yale Law School "How Much Irrationality Does the Market Permit?" April 21, 2005 **MIHIR DESAI** Harvard University School of Graduate Business Administration "Constraining Managers without Owners: Governance of the Not-for-Profit Enterprise" April 28, 2005 **MATHIAS BRAUN** UCLA Anderson School of Management "Trade Liberalization and the Politics of Financial Development" February 19, 2004 **ALASTAIR SMITH** and **BRUCE BUENO deMESQUITA** NYU Dept. of Politics "The Political Economy of Fraud: A Theory and Empirical Tests" February 26, 2004 **MARK RAMSEYER** Mitsubishi Prof. of Japanese Legal Studies Harvard Law School "Who Appoints Them, What Do They Do? Evidence on Outside Directors from Japan" March 25, 2004 **PER STROMBERG** University of Chicago Graduate School of Business "How Do Legal Differences and Learning Affect Financial Contracts?" April 1, 2004 **ALAN SCHWARZ** Yale Law School "A Normative Theory of Business Bankruptcy" April 8, 2004 **DAVID YERMACK** NYU Stern School of Business "Flights of Fancy: Corporate Jets, CEO Perquisites, and Inferior Shareholder Returns" April 22, 2004 **RAY FISMAN** Columbia University Graduate School of Business "Governance and CEO Turnover: Do Something or Do the Right Thing? " May 6, 2004 **NITTAI BERGMAN** MIT Sloan School of Management "Investor Protection and the Coasian View" February 2, 2003 **NIALL FERGUSON** Stern School of Business Enforcing the Rule of Law: The British Empire and Globalization February 7, 2003 **COLIN MAYER** Said Business School University of Oxford The Origination and Evoluation of Ownership and Control of the Corporation March 6, 2003 **JORDAN SIEGEL** MIT Sloan School of Management Can Foreign Firms Bond Themselves Effectively by Renting U.S. Securities Laws? March 13, 2003 **ALAN SCHWARTZ** Yale Law School Understanding MACs and MAEs" April 10, 2003 **BENGT HOLMSTROM** Sloan School of Management A Theory of Firm Scope April 24, 2003 **JENNIFER ARLEN** NYU School of Law Unregulable Defenses and the Perils of Shareholder Choice January 31, 2002 **AMIR LICHT** Law School at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel **RENE STULZ** Ohio State University Culture, Law & Finance Culture, Openness & Finance February 14, 2002 **KATHARINA PISTOR** Columbia Law School Incomplete Law: A Conceptual and Analytical Framework February 28, 2002 **THOMAS HELLMANN** Stanford University IPOs, Acquisitions and the Use of Convertible Securities in Venture Capital March 7, 2002 **STEVEN KAPLAN** University of Chicago Financial Contracting Theory Meets the Real World: An Empirical Analysis of Venture Capital Contracts and Characteristics, Contracts and Actions: Evidence from Venture Capital Analyses March 21, 2002 **MARCEL KAHAN** NYU School of Law An Economic Analysis of Rights of First Refusal April 4, 2002 **HENRY HANSMANN** Yale Law School Ownership, Overcapacity, and Exit in the Hospital Industry April 18, 2002 **ARTHUR REBELL** Senior Vice President Loews Corporation A Tracking Case Study: The Loews Corporation's Carolina Group IPO ## Current Law & Finance Seminar - [Current Speakers and Papers](/experience-stern/about/departments-centers-initiatives/centers-of-research/pollack-center-law-business/events/law-finance-seminar)