:: HOME :: :: SUBMISSIONS :: :: REVIEWERS :: :: CONFERENCES :: 20th Annual (2010) 19th Annual (2009) 18th Annual (2008) 17th Annual (2007) 2011 Winter Finance Conference February 10th (Thu) February 11th (Fri) February 12th (Sat) Morning Session (7:30-9:15) Morning Session (7:30-9:15) Morning Session (7:30-9:15) Corporate Finance - Raising Capital Microstructure Imperfect Information Session Chair: Milton Harris (Chicago) Session Chair: Robert Engle (NYU) Session Chair: Ingrid Werner (Ohio State) Anticipation, Acquisitions and Bidder Returns: Industry Shocks and the Transfer of Information across Rivals Jay Cai (Drexel), Moon H. Song (San Diego State), and Ralph Walkling (Drexel) Finding a Good Price in Opaque Over-the-Counter Markets Haoxiang Zhu (Stanford) Is There Price Discovery in Equity Options? Dmitriy Muravyev (Illinois), Neil Pearson (Illinois), and John Broussard (Rutgers) Discussant: Richard Ruback (Harvard) Discussant: Kerry Back (Rice) Discussant: Joel Hasbrouck (NYU) Public information and IPO Underpricing Einar Bakke, Tore Leite, and Karin Thorburn (all at Norwegian School) Cross-listing, Investment Sensitivity to Stock Price and the Learning Hypothesis Thierry Foucault (HEC) and Laurent Frésard (HEC) Who Writes the News? Corporate Press Releases During Merger Negotiations Kenneth R. Ahern (Michigan) and Denis Sosyura (Michigan) Discussant: Paolo Fulghieri (UNC) Discussant: Andrew Karolyi (Cornell) Discussant: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf (Harvard) Afternoon Session (5:45-7:30) Afternoon Session (5:30-7:15)   Asset Pricing Fund Managers and Advisers   Session Chair: Jonathan Berk (Stanford) Session Chair: Ragmuram Rajan (Chicago)   The Demographics of Innovation and Asset Returns Nicolae Garleanu (Berkeley) Leonid Kogan MIT), and Stavros Panageas (Chicago) Information Content when Mutual Funds Deviate from Benchmarks Hao Jiang , Marno Verbeek, and Yu Wang (all at Erasmus)   Discussant: Christopher Telmer (Carnegie-Mellon) Discussant: Mark Grinblatt (UCLA)   Betting Against Beta Andrea Frazzini (AQR) and Lasse Pedersen (NYU) Bad Advice: Explaining the Persistence of Whole Life Insurance Santosh Anagol (Penn), Shawn Cole (Harvard ), and Shayak Sarkar (Harvard )   Discussant: Lubos Pastor (Chicago) Discussant: Chester Spatt (Carnegie-Mellon)   Dinner 8:00 p.m.   Closing Reception (7:00) Location: TBA   Location: TBA February 10th (Thu) February 11th (Fri) February 12th (Sat)