:: HOME :: :: SUBMISSIONS :: :: REVIEWERS :: :: CONFERENCES :: 20th Annual (2010) 19th Annual (2009) 18th Annual (2008) 17th Annual (2007) 2009 Winter Finance Conference February 5th (Thu) February 6th (Fri) February 7th (Sat) Morning Session (7:30-9:15) Morning Session (7:30-9:15) Morning Session (7:30-9:15) Optimal Contracting Asset Pricing I Asset Pricing II-Effects of Relative Wealth Session Chair: Karin Thorburn (Dartmouth) Session Chair: Christopher James (Florida) Session Chair: Aris Protopapadakis (USC) Dynamic Compensation Contracts with Private Savings Zhiguo He (Chicago) Whats Vol Got to Do with It Itamar Drechsler (Wharton) and Amir Yaron (Wharton) Relative Wealth Concerns and Complementarities in Information Acquisition Diego Garcia (UNC) and Günter Strobl (UNC) Discussant: Andrzaj Skrzypacz (Stanford) Discussant: Lu Zhang (Michigan) Discussant: Ron Kaniel (Duke) Stochastic House Appreciation and Optimal Mortgage Lending Tomasz Piskorski (Columbia) and Alexei Tchistyi (Berkeley) Coordination in the Presence of Asset Markets Shimon Kogan (Texas),Anthony Kwasnica (Penn State) and Roberto Weber (Carnegie Mellon) The Effect of Relative Wealth Concerns on the Cross-section of Stock Returns Juan Pedro Gomez (IE Business School),Richard Priestley (BI Norwegian School of Mgt) and Fernando Zapatero (USC) Discussant: Chester Spatt (Carnegie Mellon) Discussant: Kerry Back (Texas A&M) Discussant: John Heaton (Chicago) Afternoon Session (5:45-7:30) Afternoon Session (5:45-7:30)   Performance Evaluation Corporate Finance   Session Chair: Eduardo Schwartz (UCLA) Session Chair: David Feldman (Univ Of New South Wales)   Should Benchmark Indices Have Alpha? Revisiting Performance Evaluation Martijn Cremers (Yale), Antti Petajisto (Yale) and Eric Zitzewitz (Dartmouth) Managerial Ability and Executive Compensation John R. Graham (Duke), Si Li (Wilfrid Laurier) and Jiaping Qiu (McMaster)   Discussant: Wayne Ferson (USC) Discussant: Jonathan Berk (Stanford)   The Information Content of Revealed Beliefs in Portfolio Holdings Tyler Shumway (Michigan), Maciej B. Szefler (Michigan) and Kathy Yuan (London School of Economics) The Inverse Relationship Between Bargaining Power and Industry Dependence in Mergers Kenneth R. Ahern (Michigan)   Discussant: Mark Grinblatt (UCLA) Discussant: Ralph Walkling (Drexel)   Dinner 8:00 p.m.   Closing Reception (7:00) Location: The Metropolitan   Location: La Caille February 5th (Thu) February 6th (Fri) February 7th (Sat)