SECOND ANNUAL
PENN / NYU CONFERENCE ON LAW AND FINANCE
SECOND ANNUAL
PENN / NYU CONFERENCE ON LAW AND FINANCE
Jointly sponsored by
the University of Pennsylvania’s
Institute for Law and Economics,
Wharton’s Financial Institutions
Center,
and New York University’s Center for Law & Business.
Friday, FEBRUARY 24, 2006
9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Saturday, FEBRUARY 25, 2006
9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Levy Conference Center
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Entrance on 34th Street between Chestnut and Sansom
Directions
to Penn Law
By invitation only.
For more information, contact Bonnie Clause
at clauseb@law.upenn.edu or 215.898.7719.
Conference Organizers
Yakov Amihud
Ira Rennert Professor of Finance
Stern School of Business
New York University
Marcel Kahan
George T. Lowy Professor of Law
New York University School of Law
Andrew Metrick
Associate Professor of Finance
The Wharton School
Michael L. Wachter
William B. Johnson Professor of Law and Economics
Co-Director, Institute for Law and Economics
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Conference Schedule
| FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24 |
| 9:30 a.m. |
Registration and Continental
Breakfast |
10:00 a.m |
Welcoming Remarks
Michael A. Fitts
Dean and Bernard G. Segal Professor of Law
University of Pennsylvania Law School
|
| 10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. |
Theodore Eisenberg
Cornell University Law School
Geoffrey P. Miller
New York University School of Law
"Ex Ante Choices of Law and Forum:
An Empirical Analysis of Corporate Merger Agreements"
Commentator:
Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Columbia University
Graduate School of Business |
| 11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. |
Coffee Break |
| 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. |
Michael R. Roberts
The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
"Is Financial Contracting Costly?
An Empirical Analysis of Debt Covenants
and Corporate Investment"
Commentator:
Michael Klausner
Stanford Law School |
| 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. |
Lunch Break |
| 1:30 p.m. –
2:30 p.m. |
Augustin Landier
Leonard Stern School of Business
New York University
"Bottom-Up Corporate Governance"
Commentator:
Ehud Kamar
University of Southern California
Law School |
| 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. |
Mark J. Roe
Harvard Law School
"Legal Origins and Stock Markets
in the Twentieth Century"
Commentator:
Luigi Zingales
The University of Chicago
Graduate School of Business |
| 3:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. |
Coffee Break |
| 3:45 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. |
Andrei Shleifer
Harvard University
"The Law and Economics of Self-Dealing"
Commentator:
John C. Coates
Harvard Law School
|
| SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25 |
| 8:30 a.m. |
Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 a.m. –
10:00 a.m. |
Katharina Pistor
Columbia Law School
"How Law Affects Lending"
Commentator:
Viral V. Acharya
London Business School |
| 10:00 a.m. –
11:00 a.m. |
Marcel Kahan
New York University
School of Law
Edward B. Rock
University of Pennsylvania Law School
"Hedge Funds in Corporate Governance
and Corporate Control"
Commentator:
Laura T. Starks
McCombs School of Business
University of Texas at Austin |
| 11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. |
Coffee Break |
| 11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. |
Antoinette Schoar
Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Judge-Specific Effects in Ch.11 and Firm Outcomes"
Commentator:
Barry E. Adler
New York University School of Law |
| 12:15 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. |
Closing Remarks |
Last Updated
October 10, 2008
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