:: HOME :: :: SUBMISSIONS :: :: REVIEWERS :: :: CONFERENCES :: 21st Annual (2011) 20th Annual (2010) 19th Annual (2009) 18th Annual (2008) 17th Annual (2007) 2012 Winter Finance Conference February 9th (Thu) February 10th (Fri) February 11th (Sat) Morning Session (7:30-9:15) Morning Session (7:30-9:15) Morning Session (7:30-9:15) Asset Pricing I Asset Pricing II Corporate Finance Session Chair: Mark Grinblatt (UCLA) Session Chair: Kerry Back (Rice) Session Chair: Ramon Rabinovitch (Houston) Pricing Model Performance and the Two-Pass Cross Sectional Regression Methodology Raymond Kan (Toronto), Cesare Robotti (Fed Reserve /EDHEC), Jay Shanken (Emory) Health and Mortality Delta: Assessing the Welfare Costs of Household Insurance Choice Ralph Koijen(Chicago) Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh(NYU), Motohiro Yogo(Minneapolis FED) Financing Investment with Long-Term Debt and Uncertainty Shocks Michael Michaux (Univ of Southern California) Francois Gourio (Boston) Discussant: Jonathan Berk (Stanford) Discussant: Peter Bossaerts (Cal Tech) Discussant: Toni Whited (Rochester) Investment Flexibility and Stock Returns Dirk Hackbarth (Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Timothy C. Johnson (Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Political Uncertainty and the Risk Premia Lubos Pastor (Chicago), Pietro Veronesi (Chicago) The evolution of capital structure and operating performance after leveraged buyouts: Evidence from U.S. corporate tax returns Jonathan Cohn (UT Austin), Lillian Mills (UT Austin), Erin Towery (UT Austin) Discussant: Lu Zhang (Ohio State) Discussant: Francisco Gomes (LBS) Discussant: Jaime Zender (Colorado) Afternoon Session (5:45-7:30) Afternoon Session (5:45-7:30)   Implicit Contracts Financial Institutions   Session Chair: Michael Fishman (Northwestern) Session Chair: Richard Smith (UC Riverside)   Mutual Fund Families and Performance Evaluation David Brown (Wisconsin-Madison) Youchang Wu (Wisconsin-Madison) The Impact of Incentives and Communication Costs on Information Production: Evidence from Bank Lending Jun Qian (Boston College), Philip Strahan (Boston College and NBER), Zhishu Yang (Tsinghua Univ)   Discussant: Matthew Spiegel (Yale) Discussant: Andrew Hertzberg (Columbia)   The Design of Mortgage-Backed Securities and Servicer Contracts Pegaret Pichler (Northeastern) Robert Mooradian (Northeastern) The Risk-Taking Incentives of Money Market Funds Marcin Kacperczyk (NYU) Philipp Schnabl (NYU)   Discussant: Tomasz Piskorski (Columbia) Discussant: Yihui Pan (Utah)   Dinner 7:30 p.m. Dinner 7:30 p.m. Closing Reception (6:30) Location: Golden Cliff Location: Golden Cliff Location: Golden Cliff February 9th (Thu) February 10th (Fri) February 11th (Sat)                   OPENING RECEPTION IS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8TH 6:30-9:00 PM IN THE ATRIUM OF THE CLIFF LODGE.