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2008 Winter Finance Conference
February 7th (Thu)
February 8th (Fri)
February 9th (Sat)
Morning Session (7:30-9:15)
Morning Session (7:30-9:15)
Morning Session (7:30-9:15)
Corporate Finance
Asset Pricing
Mutual Funds
Session Chair: Matthew Spiegel (Yale)
Session Chair: Roni Michaely (Cornell and IDC)
Session Chair: Peter DeMarzo (Stanford)
Control of Corporate Decisions: Shareholders vs. Management
Milton Harris (Chicago) and Artur Raviv (Northwestern)
Economic Catastrophe Bonds
Joshua Coval, Jakub Jurek, and Erik Stafford (all Harvard)
Payoff Complementarities and Financial Fragility: Evidence from Mutual Fund Outflows
Qi Chen (Duke), Itay Goldstein (Wharton), and Wei Jiang (Columbia)
Discussant: Yilmaz Bilge (Wharton)
Discussant: John Cochrane (Chicago)
Discussant: Jacob Sagi (Vanderbilt)
Leadership, Coordination and Mission-Driven Management
Patrick Bolton (Columbia), Markus Brunnermeier (Princeton), and Laura Veldkamp(NYU)
Young, Old, Conservative and Bold: The Implications of Heterogeneity and Finite Lives for Asset pricing
Stavros Panageas (Wharton) and Nicolae Garleanu (Wharton)
Do Hedge Funds Profit from Mutual Fund Distress?
Joseph Chen (USC), Samuel Hanson (Harvard), Harrison Hong (Harvard), and Jeremy Stein (Harvard)
Discussant: Anjan Thakor (Washington U)
Discussant: Debbie Lucas (Northwestern)
Discussant: Clemens Sialm (Texas)

Afternoon Session (5:45-7:30)
Afternoon Session (5:45-7:30)
 
Behavioral Finance
Risky Debt
 
Session Chair: Chester Spatt (Carnegie-Mellon)
Session Chair: Ronen Israel (IDC)
 
Understanding Investor Sentiment: The Case of Soccer
Gennaro Bernile (University of Miami) and Evgeny Lyandres (Rice)
Contingency and Renegotiation of Financial Contracts: Evidence from Private Credit Agreements
Michael Roberts (Wharton) and Amir Sufi (Wharton)
 
Discussant: Diego Garcia (UNC)
Discussant: Mark Flannery (Florida)
 
Performance Persistence of Individual Investors
Limei Che, Oyvind Norli, and Richard Priestley (all Norwegian School of Management
Is Default Risk Negatively Related to Stock Returns?
Amiyatosh Purnanadam and Sudheer Chava (both University of Michigan)
 
Discussant: Mark Grinblatt (UCLA)
Discussant: Lubos Pastor (Chicago)
 

Dinner 8:00 p.m.
 
Closing Reception (7:00)
Location: Log Haven
 
Location: Garden Cafe, Grand America Hotel
February 7th (Thu)
February 8th (Fri)
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